halt

[deadly7]

Is halt supposed to be a command that can only be executed by root, or did something fuck up with Slack?

[Quik]

/sbin/halt

shutdown -h now

Dear god, I hope you would have to be root to shutdown the computer.

[deadly7]

Ok, is there any way I can make it so I don't have to keep switching to root to shut down? it's annoying.

[Newby]

Ok, is there any way I can make it so I don't have to keep switching to root to shut down? it's annoying.

sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now

[Joe]

Ok, is there any way I can make it so I don't have to keep switching to root to shut down? it's annoying.

You're supposed to switch to root? Crap, I've been using the power button!

But seriously, yeah, what Newby said.

[Quik]

You could change your sudoers file to allow yourself to sudo /sbin/halt

Newby: for shutdown, you don't need /sbin/

[deadly7]

I'm confused! Thanks, Quik.

[Newby]

You could change your sudoers file to allow yourself to sudo /sbin/halt

Newby: for shutdown, you don't need /sbin/

If he's using Slackware, /sbin/ isn't in $PATH for a normal user (unless you modify it to be there).

:0

[Joe]

I truely doubt he'd know how to put /sbin/ in the $PATH, so perhaps you should tell him. I'm also interested, so eh?

[iago]

You can try chmod'ing it to run as root.  I've never tried that myself:
chmod +s /sbin/halt

Of course, why would you want to let an ordinary user turn off your computer, in general?  It seems silly to allow that by default.  I'm not sure how you could POSSIBLY consider that a "fuck up". 

[deadly7]

You can try chmod'ing it to run as root.  I've never tried that myself:
chmod +s /sbin/halt

Of course, why would you want to let an ordinary user turn off your computer, in general?  It seems silly to allow that by default.  I'm not sure how you could POSSIBLY consider that a "fuck up". 

Windows has corrupted me.  I also assumed that all of you peoples that have been using Slackware knew of some magical trick/command to get around it for the lazy.

[Newby]

I truely doubt he'd know how to put /sbin/ in the $PATH, so perhaps you should tell him. I'm also interested, so eh?

newby@impaler:~$ shutdown
-bash: shutdown: command not found
newby@impaler:~$ echo $PATH                                                   
/home/jklinect/clamav/bin:/home/jklinect/mono-1.1.13.2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/www/htdig/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:.
newby@impaler:~$ PATH=/sbin:$PATH                                             
newby@impaler:~$ echo $PATH                                                   
/sbin:/home/jklinect/clamav/bin:/home/jklinect/mono-1.1.13.2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/www/htdig/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:.
newby@impaler:~$ shutdown --help                                               
shutdown: you must be root to do that!
newby@impaler:~$ echo "^^"                                                     
^^
newby@impaler:~$   

Modify ~/.bash_profile to add it in there if you want it there for each login.

[Sidoh]

Modify ~/.bash_profile to add it in there if you want it there for each login.

How would modifying .bash_profile in one home directory affect the path for each login?  Perhaps you're implying that each login has to do that?  If that's the case, sorry.

[Ergot]

Modify ~/.bash_profile to add it in there if you want it there for each login.

How would modifying .bash_profile in one home directory affect the path for each login?  Perhaps you're implying that each login has to do that?  If that's the case, sorry.

It will after each time that user logins in. Not for every user.

[Sidoh]

It will after each time that user logins in. Not for every user.

Ah.  He was using login as a verb, not a noun.  Misunderstood; sorry.