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From: Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@outlook.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:38:38 -0400
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On Saturday, March 21, 2015 9:35:44 PM Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Alexander Kapshuk <
> alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:26 PM, German <gentgerman@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> >
> >> If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down, however when I=
 run
> >> poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the syst=
em from
> >> user? Thanks
> >>
> >> --
> >> German <gentgerman@gmail.com>
> >>
> >>
> > poweroff(1) says:
> > If  you're  not  the superuser, you will get the message `must be s=
upe=E2=80=90
> >        ruser'.
> >
> > Either run poweroff as the superuser, or if you're running Gnome, K=
DE,
> > XFCE, etc., you may use the shutdown option available in those desk=
top
> > environments.
> >
> > Others might suggest other ways of doing it.
> >
>=20
> It's actually poweroff(8). Sorry.

That's actually sysvinit poweroff...systemd's is different.
--=20
Fernando Rodriguez