[aclug-L] Re: Login in problem...

["Maverick, Ven-Han Ieong" <vhieong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh...yes,thank you so much...you know what...my man page doesn't show on
this...that is RH6.0..I wonder why? The manpage doesn't have anything
about /etc/nologin on shutdown..is that because my man page or shutdown
package is too old? Thank you.
                                        Mav

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Jonathan Hall wrote:

->From the shutdown man page:
->
->
->       If shutdown is called with a delay, it creates  the  advi-
->       sory  file  /etc/nologin  which  causes  programs  such as
->       login(1) to not  allow  new  user  logins.  Shutdown  only
->       removes  this  file  if it is stopped before it can signal
->       init (i.e. it is cancelled or something goes wrong).  Oth-
->       erwise  it is the responsibility of the system shutdown or
->       startup scripts to remove this  file  so  that  users  can
->       login.
->
->Perhaps /etc/nologin was not properly removed--try logging in as root and
->see if this file still exists.  If it does, try removing it.
->
->
->
->On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 10:47:47AM -0600, Maverick, Ven-Han Ieong wrote:
->> Hi, all, 
->>     I got a problem on my linux box, yesterday night, I shutdown my
->> linux box in two mins as root with the command line
->> /sbin/shutdown -h +2
->> I ususally did
->> /sbin/halt
->> 
->>     so, the next day when I tried to login as normal user...
->> login: username
->> Password: XXXXX
->> The system is going down on Sun Oct 31 01:01:57 1999
->> 
->> Login incorrect
->> 
->> login: 
->> 
->>     I am sure my password is correct...I am not able to login as a
->> normal user, I can login as root only...,and  then do a
->> su user
->> that is so much pain....
->>     If someone has experience this and know the solution, please
->> help... TIA.
->> 
->>                     Regards,
->>                                             Mav
->> 
->> 
->
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