# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-30 13:16:10 -0500:
> I am attempting to create a simple user shell executable which will
> execute a root command.
>
> su root killall squid
>
> requests root's password, and then issues a;
>
> killall: /usr/bin/killall: cannot execute binary file
>
> while killall executes by root no problem.
> Any idea what's going on here?
it's not documented particularly well, only in the EXAMPLES section
of su(1):
su root -c "killall squid"
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