[ale] The system is going down...

[Jim Popovitch]

Last week I logged into a remote site of ours (dialup), after some tweaks
(nothing important), I issued a 'shutdown -r 16:32:00'  this way I had
enough time to disconnect from mgetty.  I had been experiencing problems
with mgetty not resetting the modem, and I didn't want the system to start
shutting down while I was still logged in.  Anyway, my problem is that now
when I connect to the system, no logins are valid, and the message 'The
system is going down on Fri Dec  4 16:32:34 1998' is displayed.  Any ideas
on what could have happened, and how to undo it?