[ale] The system is going down...

[Jim Popovitch]

I have had someone on site reboot the box, I suspect that it is a left over
/etc/nologin file.

Many thanks to you and everyone else for the quick responses.

-Jim


-----Original Message-----
 From: Jim Kinney <jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu>
To: Todd R. Palmer <t2palmer at avana.net>
Cc: ale at cc.gatech.edu <ale at cc.gatech.edu>; Jim Popovitch
<jimpop at sprintmail.com>
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] The system is going down...


>You have a hung process. Something is not shutting down and the shutdown
>process is waiting for it to finish to exit cleanly. Probably related to
>the modem conection. Either it will eventually time out or it will require
>a console <ctl><alt><del> to finish the reboot.
>
>I have use a cron job of "shutdown -r now" with good success from remote
>controlers.
>
>James Kinney M.S.Physics jkinney at emory.edu
>Educational Technology Specialist 404-727-4734
>Department of Physics Emory University http://teller.physics.emory.edu
>
>On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Todd R. Palmer wrote:
>
>> > 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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>> There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.
>>
>> Todd Palmer
>> Developer
>> t2palmer at avana.net
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