i saw your (non-linked) reply to this, Giles... i'll keep it in here for ease of finding..<br>[giles still has similar issues using 'sudo shutdown -P now' instead of the halt command]<br><br>my sudo file has this at the end:<br>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" id="internal-source-marker_0.5447180899914731"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#cc6633;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">%mythtv
ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend, /sbin/modprobe,
/home/myth/scripts/, /bin/sh, /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend,
/usr/bin/irexec</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(204, 102, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">myth
ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend, /sbin/modprobe,
/home/myth/scripts/, /bin/sh, /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend,
/usr/local/bin/irexec</span></p><p style="margin-left: 6.24pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(204, 102, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 6.24pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(204, 102, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">it's probably far from 'best practice', but it works, so i dont really care :P</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 6.24pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#cc6633;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">i also seem to recall that when you do edit the sudoers file, then you need to add the entries at the very end of the file, and not part-way through. some bug apparently where it wont apply those rules or acts strangely. (atleast it is on *buntu)</span><br>
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