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From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
To: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: /etc/nologin file invunerability 
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> >so i booted with "-s" and did the "mount /" and "mount -a".  Then I
> >removed the file /etc/nologin. When i rebooted, it had reappeared. It is
> >just like before. I delete it, and next time it is there again.
>
>    Sounds like someone is playing a trick on you. /etc/nologin is normally
> created by the shutdown command and is normally removed in the system startup
> script /etc/rc.

Well, I guarantee you it's not me and it's not my wife. That rules out the
trick theory!  I can see the command in /etc/rc to remove the file. Is
there a reason that rc is not operating?

Something is trying to mount Cd9660, which I don't have. I get a message
like "filesystem mount failed, startup aborted." Does that mean the CD-ROM
startup is aborted, or the entire mission??? Perhaps that is what's
stopping the /etc/rc from doing it's job?

Thanks in advance!

Ken