X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:22:03 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: shutdown: Couldn't shutdown: Error 53 The network path was not found. Message-ID: <20090223102203.GB27152@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Feb 23 09:39, Fr?d?ric Bron wrote: > What does this mean? > > $ win_shutdown > WARNING!!! System is going down NOW > shutdown: Couldn't shutdown: Error 53 The network path was not found. > > where win_shutdown just contains: > shutdown -s now Error 53 is returned by the InitiateSystemShutdown function if you don't hold the SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME privilege. What's weird is that this fact should actually have resulted in another error message: shutdown: required privilege not held: ... I have no idea why this occurs, sorry. Rebuilding shutdown for debugging and stepping through might give a clue, perhaps. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/