[ale] The system is going down...

[Jim Kinney]

You have a hung process. Something is not shutting down and the shutdown
process is waiting for it to finish to exit cleanly. Probably related to
the modem conection. Either it will eventually time out or it will require
a console <ctl><alt><del> to finish the reboot.

I have use a cron job of "shutdown -r now" with good success from remote
controlers.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Todd R. Palmer wrote:

> > Last week I logged into a remote site of ours (dialup), after some tweaks
> > (nothing important), I issued a 'shutdown -r 16:32:00'  this way I had
> > when I connect to the system, no logins are valid, and the message 'The
> > system is going down on Fri Dec  4 16:32:34 1998' is displayed.  Any ideas
> > on what could have happened, and how to undo it?
> 
> remove the file /etc/nologin.
> Look at man nologin for more info.
> I've also had this happen on my Rh 5.1 system.  I'm not sure what 
> causes it.  Anyone?
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> Todd Palmer
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