$ reboot -bash: reboot: command not found $ /sbin/reboot reboot: must be superuser.
In KDE / GNOME, you can just click reboot in the menu and your session sends a message to display manager, which runs as root and does the dirty job of rebooting or shutting down your machine. Unfortunately, things are not that easy if you are using a simpler window manager or want to shutdown from a script. Sure, there is sudo, but that has to be configured first to work without password. Luckily, after a couple of hours of googling (only to find helpful advice as “this can be done easily with ConsoleKit or hal”), reading documentation of dbus, {Console,Policy}Kit and hal and clicking in qdbusviewer, I finally found a way with hal+dbus:
$ dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal \ --type=method_call --print-reply \ /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer \ org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Reboot
To shutdown, just replace Reboot with Shutdown. I’m going to add this to the default icewm configuration, so that the logout menu finally works.
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marek ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot
?? 🙂
The Hal way works out of the box and it also makes sure that only locally logged in users can reboot. sudo is so old school… 😉
But it is also much more simple to remember 🙂