Robin Chatterjee wrote: > No actually in some other versions of unix ( i can think of wipros winix > for one) shutdown -y answers yes to the question "do you really want to > shutdown ?" > This confirmation question is not there in linux, hence the shutdown > command was failing for him. Sorry, I refuse to believe that. For any non-root user, [I executed this command here. See output : - [rohit@pluto rohit]$ shutdown -y now Password: [rohit@pluto rohit]$ prompts you for your password. [And NOT root password]. If he was returning to bash prompt after pressing control-alt-delete then the response to ctrlaltdel on his machine may have been explicitly set to /bin/bash [Wild possibility?] by the sysadmin. Rohit ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
