Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)
hi ya vestor
yu get the "/etc/nologin" file created during shutdown ...
and upon reboot...or shutdown... it is NOT cleaning up after itself...
if you pulled the power on it or something odd... it is not yet
able to resync itself... gotta keep rebooting n-times till it works right
try init 6, shutdown -rf now, halt, etc to get the /etc/nologin
process to clean itself up
guess that means at least 6-12 reboots into single user mode and
regular root logins etc... till it resyncs...
disabling /etc/nologin is a very bad idea....
and will create more unexplainable machine behaviour
first test might be just remove /etc/nologin.boot ( if its empty )
- its probably the flag to say recreate the /etc/nologin file...
be sure to run e2fsck or equiv during single user mode to make sure
that logins was not disable for a valid reason
c ya
alvin
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, vester wrote:
>
>
> okay...i found something. i think alvin was right when he pointed out that
> it could be because of /etc/nologin (but i cannot log in as root
> either)... the thing is, the file is there,
> and i already deleted it but it always comes back. there also is a
> /etc/nologin.boot and a script /etc/init.d/rmnologin that schould delete
> the nologin file...
>
> locate nologin says:
>
> /etc/init.d/rmnologin
> /etc/nologin
> /etc/nologin.boot
> /etc/rc2.d/S99rmnologin
> /etc/rc3.d/S99rmnologin
> /etc/rc4.d/S99rmnologin
> /etc/rc5.d/S99rmnologin
> /lib/security/pam_no_login.so
>
> anyone?
>
> thanks,
>
> vester
>
>
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