Re: Shutdown and reboot commands not working

[Aaron B. <ab...@ge...>]

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 07:59, Keith Winston wrote:
> Cédric Chausson wrote:
> > No no I just want to shutdown like you.
> >
> > I don't care if I get a Confirm Logout box as long as it shuts down
> > after but it doesn't !
> >
> > Any other ideas of what to configure ?
>
> Make sure the /sbin directory is in your path since that is where the
> shutdown program lives.  Try "echo $PATH".  I added /sbin and /usr/sbin
> to the my $PATH path in $HOME/.bash_profile, although the best place to
> set it depends on your distro and your shell.  You should test whether
> the shutdown and reboot works from the command line outside of icewm.
> If it works from a console, it should work in icewm (after the $PATH is

Also remember that if you are using xdm, kdm, or gdm for login, the 
$PATH that icewm gets is different from that of any shell prompt.
You might want to put the full path to shutdown and reboot in
your preferences file.