Re: Stale /var/run/nologin

2014-01-08 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 19:42:16 -0600 Steven Ulrick meow8...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, January 4, 2014, Sam Varshavchik mr...@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.

Re: Stale /var/run/nologin

2014-01-08 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Steven P. Ulrick writes: On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 19:42:16 -0600 Steven Ulrick meow8...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, January 4, 2014, Sam Varshavchik mr...@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:

Re: Stale /var/run/nologin

2014-01-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/08/14 20:29, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Steven P. Ulrick writes: On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 19:42:16 -0600 Steven Ulrick meow8...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, January 4, 2014, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: About ten hours after a reboot, a chance attempt to log in back to

Re: Stale /var/run/nologin

2014-01-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/08/2014 04:29 AM, Sam Varshavchik issued this missive: Steven P. Ulrick writes: On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 19:42:16 -0600 Steven Ulrick meow8...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, January 4, 2014, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: About ten hours after a reboot, a chance attempt to

Re: Stale /var/run/nologin

2014-01-08 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rick Stevens writes: On 01/08/2014 04:29 AM, Sam Varshavchik issued this missive: But if that's getting spuriously created, during a normal system state, then something indeed must be creating it, in the wild. Not going to be easy tracking it down. Perusing journalctl's man page, there

Re: Stale /var/run/nologin

2014-01-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/08/2014 04:34 PM, Sam Varshavchik issued this missive: Rick Stevens writes: On 01/08/2014 04:29 AM, Sam Varshavchik issued this missive: But if that's getting spuriously created, during a normal system state, then something indeed must be creating it, in the wild. Not going to be easy

Re: Stale /var/run/nologin

2014-01-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/09/14 10:09, Rick Stevens wrote: I did some digging around and found the /run/nologin file is managed by the program /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-user-sessions (invoked by systemd-user-sessions.service). FWIW, this issue has been reported as

Re: Stale /var/run/nologin

2014-01-08 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ed Greshko writes: On 01/09/14 10:09, Rick Stevens wrote: I did some digging around and found the /run/nologin file is managed by the program /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-user-sessions (invoked by systemd-user-sessions.service). FWIW, this issue has been reported as

Re: Stale /var/run/nologin

2014-01-05 Thread Bob Marcan
On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 22:35:12 -0500 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: ... I yearn for the days of /etc/rc.d. If something strange was going on duri ng system boot, a carefully crafted grep inevitably digs up a bunch of scrip ts to sift through for the answers. Now, there's all

Stale /var/run/nologin

2014-01-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
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

Re: Stale /var/run/nologin

2014-01-04 Thread Steven Ulrick
On Saturday, January 4, 2014, Sam Varshavchik mr...@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

Re: Stale /var/run/nologin

2014-01-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Steven Ulrick writes: On Saturday, January 4, 2014, Sam Varshavchik URL:mailto:mrsam@courier- mta.commr...@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)