[mythtv-users] Fwd: Re: Funky prefix to shutdown command (-#012#011#011#011#011#011#011)

[Bill Meek]

On 12/19/2012 01:28 PM, schlimbo at gmx.de wrote:
...
 > myth at mythserver:~$ mythshutdown --safeshutdown -v
...

Let me try again.

To see the command that shuts down the system it's:

   mythshutdown --safeshutdown -v system --loglevel debug

Which will probably say /sbin/poweroff, and the result (my result)
was:

   ...Managed child (PID: 5774) has exited! command=/sbin/poweroff, status=256, result=1

because non-root users can't run the command. If it were sudo /sbin/poweroff,
then an entry in /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv could allow it.

So try: sudo mythshutdown --safeshutdown, it worked for me on the
command line. You probably need a sudoers entry for it to work
without a terminal (e.g. the backend.)

-- 
Bill