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> > I take it that nobody will object if I move it to /var/run?
> 
> Only everyone that expects it to be in /etc, along with everyones' 
> scripts and all the ports (eg. sshd).

As long as tools like sshd only *check* for /etc/nologin, a symlink to
/var/run/nologin would work just fine. Those parts of the system that
need to *remove* the nologin file would need to be aware of the symlink,
of course.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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