My last message

[Tim Burgess]

Hi,

Yup, I seemed to have a good install - I did the reboot at the end of
the installation process and got speech and a login prompt first time.
I logged in successfully as root (I can also login successfully with
less pwerful user names).  I think you're right about the path as these
examples work:

./shutdown -h now (when within /sbin)

And:

/sbin/shutdown -h now  (from elsewhere)

Based on my previous (minimal) experience with a Slackware build, I got
really confused by having to do the ./ prefix before a command when in
that command's actual directory.

Where do I look for path statements and what should the default be?
I've cop[ied this message to the SpeakUp list, as it would seem that
others may benefit from the answers to my questions - hope you don't
mind.

Thanks.

Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina at afb.net] 
Sent: 23 August 2002 17:10
To: Tim Burgess
Subject: Re: My last message



Hi, Tim:

Not sure about the third disk, will need to scratch my head on that one.


Do I understand that you've successfully booted and logged in, and still
can't issue shutdown?

How about:

	shutdown -h now

The -h is for "halt." You can also do -r for "reboot," which is the
default in /etc/inittab (which you can change, too, if you don't like
the default).

The confusing thing is that sounds like you don't have a proper path.
You should, at the least, be able to do:

/sbin/shutdown -h now

If you're in the acutal directory, you need to preface the command with
dot slash like so:

	./shutdown -r now

That almost cinches lack of directory. Let's try a reboot before we
suggest a reinstall.


Tim Burgess writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Further to my last message, I've found mkbootdisk and shutdown in 
> /sbin and tried to execute them from there, but I still get "command 
> not found".  Really confused now...
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Tim
> 

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