users with shutdown priviledge

[Tuan Nguyen]

Hi,

I am setting NIS users up with shutdown priviledges, however, when user executes SAM and selects shutdown, the system gives this error message:

Unexpected Exit: process ( trap "" 27 28; /usr/sbin/sync; cd /; /usr/sbin/shutdown -y -r 60 > /dev/console 2> /dev/null) exited with a non-zero exit status

The system could not be rebooted because of the following reason: The command "(trap "" 27 28; /usr/sbin/sync; cd /; /usr/sbin/shutdown -y -r 60> /dev/console 2>/dev/null)" failed.

How do I fix this?

Thank you very much for your help.

Tuan Nguyen

[Peter Godron]

Tuan,
have a look at your shutdown.allow file.
Are root and the users defined? Or is the file empty?
Regards

[RAC_1]

trap "" 27 28; /usr/sbin/sync; cd /; /usr/sbin/shutdown -y -r 60 > /dev/console 2> /dev/null

One of the above command is failing and that is causing a problem.

[Tuan Nguyen]

Peter,

Thank you for your quick response.
The shutdown.allow has the hostname and the username.
Ex:

cam13 tuan

tuan

[Tuan Nguyen]

RAC,

Thank you for your quick response.

Do I need to execute these command manually and see why they failed? All these commands are for root only, I don not know if I can exexute them as user.

Tuan

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Tuan,
try executing the individual commands as the NIS user. Should the users also be in the shutdown.allow file (we are not running NIS)?
Regards

[RAC_1]

trap "" 27 28; /usr/sbin/sync; cd /; /usr/sbin/shutdown -y -r 60> /dev/console 2>/dev/null

Just redirect error (2 > /tmp/error.log) This would give info on what is failing.

Anil

[Tuan Nguyen]

Peter, RAC,

I am able to run /usr/sbin/shutdown -y -r at the command line as user now. Thank you very much for your help. I really appreciate it.

Tuan

[RAC_1]

For every command that you use, add >> /tmp/error.log 2>&1 and check error.log file for errors.

You will have to remove 2>/dev/null

Anil