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Re: shutdown problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igmar Palsenberg)
Thu Dec 3 13:46:50 1998

From: "Igmar Palsenberg" <palsenberg@tebenet.nl>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <gnat@digitalselect.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 18:02:05 +0100
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>Redhat Gurus:

>Running redhat 5.1.

>I logged in, did some work and su and /sbin/shutdown +1

>And now when I try to log in remotely or any other account not >remotely,
>except for root, I get this message:

>Red Hat Linux release 5.1 (Manhattan)
>Kernel 2.0.34 on an i586
>login: gnat
>Password:
>The system is going down on Mon Nov 30 11:07:34 1998


>What have I done??


Nothing wrong. This is a bug in the init-scripts. Get the errata from
RedHat, and remove the /etc/nologin file. The do a reboot as root, using the
reboot command.

>Rich

            Igmar


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