[SLUG] shutdown: you must be root to do that!

Adams, Jamie Jamie.Adams at homegroup.org.uk
Thu Sep 18 16:54:05 BST 2003


> 
> would I be right to assume 'shutdown' will remain unavailable 
> to me until I add '/sbin' to my $PATH?  I can't say why, but 
> that seems rather unsafe to me.
> 
> Any thoughts or ideas?
> 

You can always just type '/sbin/shutdown' at the prompt. Not as elegant
as having it in your $path but that's how I do it. Or did I
misunderstand the question?
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