I get the following message when I try to reboot either by telnet or locally from keyboard. I am using the Std. RH6.1 Server installation. Also I am not using apache or samba as both boxes are used as DNS and Sendmail Servers only. I get same results on both boxes. The third box has Gnome & Apache installed and it works correctly also when I env all 3 box's the path statement is the same. None of the 3 boxes have a path to /sbin were shutdown is located. [root@ns /]# shutdown -r now bash: shutdown: command not found [root@ns /]#
/sbin is in the normal root path. unless you are on a su session and you did not ask su to give you the root login environment.
As you can see from the example I have su to root and then cd / Is this what you mean ask su to give root login environment. If not please spell out step by step how to get there. It still doesn't work and /sbin is not listed in the Path Statement when I type env I just tried this with a new box and a clean Server Install of 6.1 And I get same results as I reported above on the bugreport. Ken Smith
Try this handy command when you su "su -" Don't forget the dash! Have fun!