root has no permission to shutdown

[flnMichael]

Hey,
This is kinda weird, but I'm trying to shutdown of one of the UNIX station consoles as root, but it says I don't have permission to execute shutdown. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Thanks
Mike

 

[MikeLacey]

ok....

Have a, close, look at the shutdown script you're finding

Is it in the right place? (are you picking up a script someone has sneaked in)

What's the date of the script? (If it's a recent date it's been modified, or something.)

Have a look in the system log. Look for errors, warnings, unexpected root login events.

Mike

To err is human,
but to really foul things up -
you require a man Mike.

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[mariab4]

I agree w/Mike Lacey. Sounds like someone stuck another "shutdown" in your path that is being found first. Try typing

# which shutdown

and see what comes back. To shut the system down in the mean time, use the absolute path of /usr/sbin/shutdown for 11.X servers.