Re: 2troubles

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 01:08  pm, george roman wrote:

> - i can't make anny users (i can create them, but i
> can't grant access whith users other than root) they
> exist in
> /etc/password anh in /home
Are you using useradd?  adduser works much better in debian

> - when i want to turn off my computer i usally use the
> comand "poweroff". most of the times it works but
> sometimes my sistem crashes(the screen turns black and
> i can't use my keyboard to enter in text mode with
> C-A-F1 for example)

try:
shutdown -h now

Clive