Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:20:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmk.com.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The "kill -9" bug ??? Message-ID: <199809020320.XAA02793@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980902103644.344A-100000@garfield> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980902103644.344A-100000@garfield>
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<<On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:45:50 +1000 (EST), Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmk.com.au> said: > 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. Not quite. This is pretty clearly user error -- never use `kill -9' except as an absolute last resort. If you had done the correct thing (plain `kill'), `shutdown' would have had the chance to remove the /etc/nologin file it had created on your behalf. Next time, please RTFM. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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