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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:58:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Login at boot?
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On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Ken Marsh wrote:

> I'm new to unix and to FreeBSD. I just installed the system on half of my
> hard drive with the dual boot option. It seems to work fine. However, upon
> boot, I don't get a login prompt. Rather, I am just root from the get-go.
> This doesn't seem right to me. Furthermore, when I do log in, I get:
> 
> NO LOGINS -- System going down at 16:00

Somehow /etc/nologin got dropped and you need to remove it.  Boot to single 
user mode (with -s) and delete it.  

Did you turn the machine off when running shutdown at any point?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major