Cannot shutdown the system!!

[Henry Chua]

Hi guys,

Try to shutdown one of my server, but encounter this msg
"user not allow to shutdown this system".. I try loggin in as "su" same message?.. does anyone knows what is the problem?

THank you for your answers!!!

[Eric Antunes]

Hi Henry,

First you must log as root superuser to do that! Then, make sure that /etc/shutdown.allow file exists!

Regards,

Antunes

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Henry,

It sounds like you have a /etc/shutdown.allow file and it does not contain a correct entry for root. It should have a line containing the hostname and the user name for every user that is allowed to run shutdown:

root



Pete

[Henry Chua]

THANKS GUYS!! I have cloned the harddisk .. thats why the file content is incorrect.. =)