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From: "JimD" <Jim@keeliegirl.dyndns.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo difficulties
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 20:30:01 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43062.127.0.0.1.1144283401.squirrel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10604051706v4bfa7fe6qc3c0c03d6ec4569@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, April 5, 2006 8:06 pm, Grant wrote:
>
> I actually tried that first and when that failed I tried something
> like that specified here:
>
> www.gentoo.org/doc/en/sudo-guide.xml
>
> Either way I get:
>
> grant@system4 ~ $ /sbin/shutdown -h now shutdown: you must be root to do that!
>
> - Grant

For sudo to work you need to run the command with sudo.

Try:

grant@system4 ~ $ sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now shutdown

Jim
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-06  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-05 23:45 [gentoo-user] sudo difficulties Grant
2006-04-05 23:50 ` JimD
2006-04-06  0:06   ` Grant
2006-04-06  0:17     ` Manuel McLure
2006-04-06  0:30     ` JimD [this message]

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