The impression I get from your message is that you don't have root
access to the machine. And if you're using telnet sounds like you don't
have any other sort of authentication option kerberos or even the use of
SSH.
But the skinny of it is that only the root(superuser) can restart the
machine. If you have root access you can then su - or however you
preferr and then issue the shutdown -r now command that was mentioned by
another user.
If you don't have access to do so you will have to contact that system's
administrator.
If you're running ssh and you have root access you can simply use the
command of:
ssh -l root <host.name.of.machine> shutdown -r now
It will prompt you for the passwd and then issue the command. I then
suggest you use a ping command of some sort, to see that the machine
went down and then came back up.
tdh
T. Holmes
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* Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010403 19:54]:
| I want to be able to to telnet to a machine running mandrake-linux.
|
| How do I set a normal user to have "superviser" rights, so that I can
| restart the machine remotely.
|
| Thanks guys.
