[RULE] Re: User-Shutdown from the iceWM-GUI or with a script/command

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Wednesday 25 June 2003 05:15 am, Ingo Lantschner wrote:
> > Red Hat's default setup should allow any user who is sitting at the
> > terminal to shutdown. ...
> > If that isn't the case, something is wrong, please let me know.
>
> No definitly not working:
>
> [user at localhost user]$ /sbin/shutdown -h now
> shutdown: you must be root to do that!
> [user at localhost user]$

OK, I was mistaken. I don't normally use 'shutdown'.
However, both 'halt' and 'poweroff' work here.

On my machine, halt stops the machine, but doesn't power down.
poweroff halts and turns the machine off.

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