Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:25:32 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Todd Reed" <ex279@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kill all Users and prevent logins Message-ID: <15255.38252.586000.906032@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <79713265@toto.iv>
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Todd Reed <ex279@hotmail.com> types: > Is there a good way to kill everyone who is currently logged onto the system > and the allow no one to log on while the system is backing up? Once the > backup is completed, the system will be rebooted. If you're going to reboot it anyway, shutdown is the command you want to use. It will set things up so anyone but root trying to log in will get a warning and not be allowedon, issue warnings to the users currently logged in to give them time to save their work before logging them off, then goes to single user mode. After you do the backups, you can either use reboot - if that's what you want to do - or exit the single-user shell to restart multi-user mode without rebooting. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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