On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 07:02, Don wrote: > I discovered that yesterday too. Fortunately "reboot" did what I wanted. > (Even then, all I wanted to was restart sendmail, but I couldn't > remember the command) This was ID-10-T type of error on my part... :-) I used "su" instead of "su -" to get to root so I could use "shutdown". shutdown works fine when I first do "su -". Don