on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:15:33PM +0400, Ilya Martynov (m_ilya@agava.com) wrote: > > LH> Hello, > LH> I added users to halt and reboot, respectively, by making the formers login > LH> shell /sbin/halt and the latter's /sbin/reboot. > > LH> If I login as the halt user, the system shuts down and powers off. Great. > LH> When I login as the reboot user, the system shuts down and powers off. Not > LH> what I wanted. > > LH> This isn't a huge deal, but I would like to know why this is happening. > LH> Thanks. > > May be becouse /sbin/reboot is just simlink to /sbin/halt? Try using > /sbin/shutdown -r now as shell. man halt. When called as 'reboot', halt should. It looks as if what Lang's trying should work. Why it's not I don't know. I'm not going to sacrifice my uptimes to finding out why, but I'd suggest he investigate. I may the next time I take a system down. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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