[SOLVED] Sudo not responding to sudoers

Hi all,
I have edited my sudoers file, but sudo seems not to be responding. All I want is to be able to do the SHUT and PAC commands (see below), without a password. I also don't want to enter a password for each terminal (i.e. tty_tickets).
I made the below changes, and then restarted my computer --- none of the changes appear to have been implemented.
Any ideas?
Cmnd_Alias SHUT = /usr/sbin/pm-sleep, /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate, /usr/sbin/shutdown, \
/usr/sbin/reboot, /usr/bin/vlock
Cmnd_Alias PAC = /usr/bin/pacman
## User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
## Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command
# %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL
## Uncomment to allow any user to run sudo if they know the password
## of the user they are running the command as (root by default).
# Defaults targetpw # Ask for the password of the target user
# ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL # WARNING: only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw'
## Read drop-in files from /etc/sudoers.d
## (the '#' here does not indicate a comment)
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
Defaults timestamp_timeout=60
Defaults !lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn,insults
#let archimedes do SHUT
archimedes ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: SHUT, NOPASSWD: PAC
Last edited by ianhoolihan (2012-01-12 02:02:51)

Change
archimedes ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: SHUT, NOPASSWD: PAC
to
archimedes ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SHUT, NOPASSWD: PAC

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