shutdown command not found

**Saaz** · 03-07-2009

Hello
I would like to shutdown my computer differently rather than root. but fails to shutdown if i give a command telling "command not found" to shut down from a user. but it works when i switch to root.
now please help me to shutdown from my user "x".

any helps will be greatly received...

**Snake08** · 03-07-2009

I'm not pretty much good in linux,since am mainly acclimatized to windows only but i used it for some 4 or 6 months for a variety then again switch back to windows i guess It's a superuser command normally only root is allowed to use it. it is the answer you looking for...

**Zachary** · 03-07-2009

Am confused but if your a regular user, most likely there's a probability the user doesn't have rights to make use of that command.

you can type $PATH to show a user current path.
modify your /etc/profile or .bashrc , .bash_profile to your user's home directory to add permanent path's to certain profile

**Big Fish** · 03-07-2009

Well i have the solution for you..
/sbin/shutdown -h 0 (h being halt,power down, and 0 being the time in minutes)
/sbin/shutdown -r 0 (for a reboot.)
But halt -p will also do the same

enjoy...