Re: at utility use - almost works

On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:26:38 +1000 Phil wrote:

>I was able to download a test file but the shutdown command doesn't
>work. My command file looks like this:
>
>download command here
>
>sudo shutdown -h now
>
>The file downloaded and "sudo shutdown -h now" does work if entered
>directly in a console. Can anyone offer a suggestion? Also, How can I
>view error messages if I mistype the file name that I want to download?

Try specifying the full path...  you probably want /sbin/shutdown,
not /usr/bin/shutdown which is a symlink to /usr/bin/consolehelper

HTH,
Pierre