[102190] in RedHat Linux List
Re: reboot from user's accountRe: Oracle on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Tue Dec 1 20:04:27 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 18:14:54 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
To: wang zaigui <zgwang@compute.it.siu.edu>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.981201173853.13492C-100000@compute.it.siu.edu>
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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, wang zaigui wrote:
> how do I reboot linux as a user, not as root?
>I try "su root" and from there issue "reboot", the
>computer says 'command not available'
>
>Guess this is a naive question. But would appreciate any
>teaching.
reboot is in /sbin, hence not in a users path.
to fix, either type /sbin/reboot or better still use "su -" instead of "su
root". since you're going to root you don't need to type a username, and
the hyphen causes it to process the login files (.profile, .bashrc or
whatever) causing the path to be set to what root would expect.
dave
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