On 0, Rob Weir <rweir@softhome.net> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 07:35:30PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > During the boot up process, the file /etc/nologin is created with the > > contents "System bootup in progress - please wait". Only root is > > allowed to log in while this file exists. For all other users, the > > contents of the file is given as the reason why they can't log in. If > > you remove that file, then other users will be able to log in. That > > happens as one of the last things the boot up sequence does. > > Well, you learn something new every day. I had this exact problem a > while back on my firewall; I never actually looked into it very hard, since > I needed to login so rarely, and it fixed itself when I rebooted it for > a kernel upgrade. You have user logins on your firewall??? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Why are Fire Engines Red? They have four wheels and eight men; four plus eight is twelve. Twelve inches make a ruler; a ruler is Queen Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth sails the seven seas; the seven seas have fish. The fish have fins; the Finns hate the Russians. The Russians are red; fire engines are always rushin'. So they're red. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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