This one time, at band camp, Marco d'Itri wrote: >On Apr 07, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >(I forgot to mention) J.W.'s patch does more than what a mere symlink > >would do. By making programs sensitive both to /run/nologin and > >/etc/nologin, it becomes possible for the administrator to prevent > >logins by touching /etc/nologin, and this will not affect or be > >affected by what sysvinit does to /run/nologin. Is this a good idea? >No. This is a gratuitous incompaibility from long time UNIX systems >practice.
I see. It is incompatible because it preserves the behaviour that admins are expecting, and at the same time removing a program state file from /etc. I posit that you have not read the patch, nor read Thomas' mail that you replied to, nor have any idea what this thread is about. You, sir, are on crack. I am switching to mail(1). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~jaq
