[night-dj]

hi there
I am looking for the shell command to shut down my computer when my computer isn’t logged in. I know “sudo shutdown -h” seems to be correct, but this command doesn’t work when I am logged out because sudo needs a password. Anyone here who can give me an advice?

[samm]

I am not quite sure what you are asking... try /sbin/halt

[Chuckit]

You can't do anything when you aren't logged in. You must be logged in as some user.

[Tesseract]

Normal users might be able to do '/sbin/halt' or '/sbin/shutdown -h now'.
As Chuckit says, you have to be logged in to do anything (though not necessarily as root, and not necessarily a graphical login session).

[Detrius]

If you are trying to write a shell script to shutdown the machine, the command is simply "shutdown -h now", but the script must be run as root. If the script doesn't have root access, there's no way to shutdown the machine. If there is, it's a security hole that needs to be closed.

[night-dj]

Thank you for your help. ok, I accept it that I have to login.

here's my next problem ;-)

I am using this little Apple Script and saved it as an application.

tell application "Finder"

shut down

end tell

When I paste the absolute path to this apple app into my shell script, Tiger pops up a dialogbox whether I want to quit or to run the script. However my computer should shutdown without a message. Any ideas?

[Xserve@home]

When you select "shut down" from the Apple menu, it asks if you are sure. There's a little 2 minute count down timer on that dialog box. Is that what you mean? If you wait the 2 minutes the machine will automatically shutdown anyway ...

[night-dj]

Hi there,
thank your replies. I solved my problem. I didn't save my AppleScript with the correct settings. The app should be "read-only". that's it!