From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Sep 1 17:45:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29302 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:45:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from garfield.bmk.com.au (bmkind.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29270 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:45:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brendan@bmk.com.au) Received: from localhost (brendan@localhost) by garfield.bmk.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA00351 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:45:51 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from brendan@bmk.com.au) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:45:50 +1000 (EST) From: Brendan Kosowski X-Sender: brendan@garfield To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The "kill -9" bug ??? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I recently did a "kill -9" ( from root ) on a shutdown process, and after that none of the normal users could log into the system. It said: login: /bin/sh: Permission denied. I could not find any changes to permissions of dirs or files so I was forced to do a re-install. I am using FreeBSD 2.2.5. Is this a documented bug of FreeBSD 2.2.5 ??? Thanks & Regards, Brendan... P.S. - Is it a bad idea to kill processes from root ??? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message