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From: moore@emily.uvm.edu (Bryan Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: SHUTDOWN on AIX 3.1
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.130522.26957@uvm.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 13:05:22 GMT
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Organization: University of Vermont, Department of Computer Science
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I would like to give users on my system the ability to do a
'shutdown' from a $ prompt. I've tried setting up a script
which sets the users id to root and group id to system, and
then calls shutdown, but thi doesn't work. Can someone let
me know if this is possible, and if so how?

Thanks!

-Bryan
BRYAN R. MOORE          	    |   "Last night I had that same old dream
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