Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:00:24 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to have multi login again Message-ID: <199912151900.UAA28551@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> -On [19991215 04:45], m (kamidesu@hotpop.com) wrote:
> >
> > shutdown -k now
> >
> > the file NOLOGIN forbids further login. If I erase it, I go back to
> >multilogin.
> >
> > Is there any other way to do it, besides deleting that file? Thanks.
>
> exiting your single user shell will restart all rc scripts and go back
> into multi-user mode.
Uhm, he isn't in single user mode at all.
All that shutdown -k does is to be loud to all users that are
currently logged in, create /etc/nologin, and then exit.
And, of course, the only way to delete that file is to delete
that file. ;-)
Regards
Oliver
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