The shutdown command is not possible !

[Ivan Azuara]

Hi !

I´m triying to reboot my HPUX server, but i receive the next message:

# shutdown -ry 0
User root not allowed to shutdown this system (b_inb_04) -- exiting shutdown.

The strange is that i already have the shutdown.allow file , but i receive the same message.

-rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 15 Jan 5 14:02 shutdown.allow

# more shutdown.allow
root b_inb_04

Somebody have an idea that is the problem ?.


Thank's in advance

[Patrick Wallek]

Try having just the entry 'root' in shtudown.allow.
#cat shutdown.allow
root

Or try just deleting everything out of the shutdown.allow file.

[Rajeev Shukla · Accepted solution]

I think the entries in shutdown.allow file are not right, have a look at the man pages of shutdown
man 1m shutdown
It says you should have the system name and then the user who is allowed to shutdown.

The file contains lines that consist of a system host name
and the login name of a user who is authorized to reboot or
halt the system.

Cheers
Rajeev

[T G Manikandan]

Do these things

The file should have first the system name and then the user name

b_inb_04 root

you have done it reverse.

Second thing is check the permissions of the /usr/sbin/shutdown.It should be 4555.