From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Sep 1 20:21:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA23135 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 20:21:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA23130 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 20:21:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA02793; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:20:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:20:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199809020320.XAA02793@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Brendan Kosowski Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The "kill -9" bug ??? In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < 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