Os.system("shutdown"); command not found

[cosmin1805]

Hi, I am trying to shutdown my Linux mint computer via a python script, but I get a command not found error.

os.system("shutdown now")

Error:
sh: line 1: shutdown: command not found

[ndc85430]

Which user are you running this as? From memory, shutdown is typically only on root's path.

[Gribouillis]

Try

import subprocess subprocess.run(['/sbin/shutdown', '-h', 'now'])

[cosmin1805]

Try

import subprocess subprocess.run(['/sbin/shutdown', '-h', 'now'])

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/cosmin/PycharmProjects/REMOTE-SHUTDOWN/main.py", line 2, in <module> subprocess.run(['/sbin/shutdown', '-h', 'now']) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 501, in run with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process: File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 969, in __init__ self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 1845, in _execute_child raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sbin/shutdown'

[cosmin1805]

So the problem was that I was running the python script via the Pycharm interpreter, so it worked when I ran it in the terminal.