[ale] The system is going down...

[Todd R. Palmer]

> 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
> 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?

remove the file /etc/nologin.
Look at man nologin for more info.
I've also had this happen on my Rh 5.1 system.  I'm not sure what 
causes it.  Anyone?

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Todd Palmer
Developer
t2palmer at avana.net
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