Re: [cobalt-users] shutdown from command prompt

["Larry E. Smith" <lesmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald,

  Dan is NOT wrong, in fact is "more" correct in that he wrote
  the complete command.  I simply took the "short-cut" and was
  responding to the original which said "typed shutdown" and it
  did not work (para-phrasing)....

Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
sysad@xxxxxxxxx

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:02:09PM -0400, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> Dan said 
> > > /sbin/shutdown -r now
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Dan Kriwitsky
> > > 
> > > 
> Larry said
> > Dan,
> >   Believe you are going to have to type "/sbin/shutdown" since i
> >   don't think Cobalt includes the sbin directory in their default
> >   path.
> > 
> Larry, please tell me where was Dan wrong?
> Your post is confusing.
> 
> man shutdown
> /sbin/shutdown [-t sec] [-rkhncf] time [warning-message]
> If you "su -" then the command is in $PATH
> If you use "su" then the command is not in $PATH
> 
> Gerald
> 
> 
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