[plug] nologin files was : debian - bootup problem

[Mike Holland]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Anne Busby wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Bernard wrote:

wrote what?

> What creates a nologin file ?

See the man page nologin(5). It referes you to login(1), shutdown(8):

	...
        If shutdown is called with a delay, it creates  the  advi­
        sory  file  /etc/nologin  which  causes  programs  such as
        login(1) to not  allow  new  user  logins.  Shutdown  only


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