I cannot get the shutdown and reboot options

[Anthony Ewell]

Terry wrote:

> 
> Hi.  Thanks for your help.
> 
> 1)  I have never had a large enough block of time to learn vi.  It 
> should have gone out with the ark.  I don't have any other reason to use 
> sudo, so I don't use it at all.
> 
> I launched a GUI editor as root from the command line and saved it as 
> root.  I also altered its permissions to make it executable: rwx rx rx 
> (owned by root)  I still have the original file, also owned by root: r r -
> 
> 2)  Yes, I'm sure that's where that strange file is located and it does 
> not co-exist in /usr/bin, /usr/libexec or /usr/sbin:
> 
> [root at localhost etc]# which xfsm-shutdown-helper
> which: no xfsm-shutdown-helper in 
> (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin)
> 
> I'm starting to wonder whether I should put a symlink in /usr/sbin or 
> /usr/libexec.  :-\
> 

visudo does a syntax check before it allows you to save.   (I
did learn vi years ago.  It about killed me!  Now I am
trying to learn Perl.  My main problem seems to be lack
of time too.)

Would you post the custom parts of your /etc/sudoers?