on Sunday 22 March 2015 02:32:00，German wrote： > On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:51:58 -0400 > > Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com> wrote: > > On Saturday, March 21, 2015 4:58:42 PM German wrote: > > > On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:32:25 -0400 > > > > > > Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > > > > 150321 German wrote: > > > > > If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down. > > > > > When I run poweroff from user -- command not found. > > > > > How to shut down the system from user ? > > > > > > > > I'ld say "Don't" : it's contrary to the principles of Unix, > > > > which separate the roles of sysadmin (root) from those of ordinary > > > > users. > > > > > > > > To shut down, I first exit Fluxbox via its menu, > > > > then 'su' + root password, then alias 'down' = 'shutdown -h now'. > > > > That observes the proper roles + ceremonies (smile). > > > > > > Interesting. But as I said ealier, I can reboot the system when I am a > > > user > > > > by Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The user can reboot the system, but can't shut down? > > Strange > > > > > > Either /sbin/poweroff or /usr/sbin/poweroff will do it from a local > > session (if there's no other users logged in locally). > > /sbin/poweroff says "Must be a superuser" :(
then it's high time for you to trash away sysvint and openrc, and try systemd!!! > > Like I said, /sbin is only on the search path for root by default on > > gentoo.
