Thanks.
Our regular sysadmin and I just got a copy
of sudo from another machine. I'll try
that. I'm pretty sure that this will
solve my problem. (If it doesn't, I
know where to ask. :)
Thanks again.
Unfortuneately, there isn't a definate
time that we could shut the system down.
It has to be at a variable time of day.
Perhaps an 'at' job might work, though.
I'll have to investigate that. Another
option I've heard is the sudo command,
but that isn't installed on the machines.
And I'm not...
I have a system that needs to be powered
down each night. I'd like a way for the
users to be able to use shutdown to turn
off power in a nice way. The way we used
to do this with SunOS 4.1.x was to put
a user called 'shutdown' in the /etc/passwd
file with the same uid and group as root,
and...
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