Re: why doesn't shutdown work ??

Hi Bakshi! 
i'm not an expert at linux. there are two inittab files on my ubuntu
system. 
1) /etc/inittab
2) /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab
which file needs to be appended with the line you mentioned?
"shutdown -a /etc/shutdown.allow"
could you specify which file ? 
Also, will this also work for reboot and how about locking the system.

thanks,
mohan sai



On Thu, 27 May 2010 20:30:54 +0530
"J. Bakshi" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 May 2010 09:14:59 -0400
> dg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > You can also give your user the ability to shutdown via
> > "sudo", and then modifying your preferences file to specify
> > "sudo shutdown -h now", and "sudo shutdown -r now" as the
> > commands to run for those choices.
> > 
> 
> Or you can enlist your account in the user list of shutdown.
> 
> Modify inittab with 
> 
> `  `   `   `
> shutdown -a /etc/shutdown.allow
> 
> `  `   `   `
> 
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