Stale /var/run/nologin

Steven Ulrick meow8282 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 5 01:42:16 UTC 2014


On Saturday, January 4, 2014, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> About ten hours after a reboot, a chance attempt to log in back to the
server was rather rudely rejected with a:
>
> System is booting up. See pam_nologin(8)
> Connection closed by 192.168.0.2
>
> A quick run back to the console revealed the existence of a ten hour old
/var/run/nologin file as the culprit. Removing it put everything back in
working order.

Two things:
1. You are not alone!
2. Thanks for the workaround...

Steven P. Ulrick
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