From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 1 21:17:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00827 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 21:17:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00821 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 21:17:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12317; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 21:16:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <35ECC693.291CB116@san.rr.com> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 21:16:19 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0827 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brendan Kosowski CC: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: The "kill -9" question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG First off, please don't call something a bug unless you're sure that it actually is. What you have is a question, so I've sent this mail to the appropriate list. Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > I recently did a "kill -9" ( from root ) on a shutdown process, What *exactly* is a "shutdown process?" What exactly did you type? > and after > that none of the normal users could log into the system. > > It said: login: /bin/sh: Permission denied. Where exactly did it say this? > I could not find any changes to permissions of dirs or files so I was > forced to do a re-install. > > I am using FreeBSD 2.2.5. > > Is this a documented bug of FreeBSD 2.2.5 ??? No, it doesn't sound like a bug at all. > P.S. - Is it a bad idea to kill processes from root ??? That depends on which process you kill. :) Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** At Barry (a small town in south Wales) hidden cameras have had to be installed to keep watch on the town's CCTV [Closed Circuit Television] to record acts of vandalism against the CCTV. - Privacy Forum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message