[siddharthmakwana]

Originally Posted by a_rahim

^Are you giving those commands with "root" privilege?

sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart

sudo gives root privileges to normal user. If sudo doesnt work like if it says the user is not in sudoers list ,then enter su in the terminal and give the root password and then give that command to restart hal.

hey buddy....
linux-ziap:/etc/init.d # <<-- this # is used to specify root login in linux