Thank you everyone for the wealth of responses. I know it's a simple
question, and now that I think about it, it only makes sense that one
has to be logged in as root to execute shutdown. The problem was that
shutdown wasn't in the path and I wasn't logged in as root.

Thanks again.

Brett


ec wrote:
> In several and possibly all KDE's, I have found that
> the ole windoze command cntl-alt-delete either
> starts the shutdown or opens a popup box with options
> such as shutdown, restart(reboot) or restart the
> session.

> Also, cntl-alt-backspace will just restart the kde
> session on most.

> Hope this helps.

> Don't know why what you tried doesn't work.

> Also going to konsole and doing the following

> user$ su
> root$ shutdown -h now

> usually shuts down any linux system (in my limited
> experience

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-Aristotle

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