Re: shutdown prompt question

["Dave S" <dsmithye hotmail com>]

>That is a "feature" of you linux distribution, I believe.  Are you using
>RedHat?  It using a program called consolehelper to allow users to easily 
>run
>root-only programs (like halt and reboot) if you know the root password.
>You'll have to reconfigure that program.  The links to halt and reboot in
>/usr/bin are just symlinks to consolehelper.  Remoe those, and make 
>symlinks to
>the actual programs (they should be /sbin or /usr/sbin).
>


Yes, sorry i forgot to mention i am running Redhat (6.1 w/2.2.14 kernel).

Thanks for the info and i'll try what you suggested.


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