Re: Shutdown Mandrake 10.1

Guys - remember, this is a new user...

If you open a terminal window.
And you want to change to root

type 'su -'
note the " -"

they are significant. The argument is to load the users profile which
means that root's environment (i.e. PATH) will be loaded.

The reason the 'Command not found' happened was because you didn't
have /sbin in profile. This is easily fixed by typing 'su -' instead of
'su' to switch to root.

Craig

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 05:27 -0800, Michael wrote:
> If I remember correctly in MAndrake you need to be root to execute
> this command. You need to use shutdown now -h as root.
>
> Brett Conrad wrote:
>
> >Hello!
> >
> >How do I shut down and/or reboot Mandrake 10.1 Community Edition? I'm
> >running KDE 3.2.
> >
> >The Linux book I am reading says there is a "shutdown" command, but it
> >doesn't work in the terminal window. "Command not found" When I log out,
> >there is a Reboot button, but it is greyed out. Same with the Halt
> >button.
> >
> >I've learned a lot since installing Linux four days ago, but I haven't
> >solved this one yet.
> >


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