That file is normally removed by the rmnologin script located at /etc/init.d/rmnologin.
There should also be links to that script in the /etc/rc2.d through /etc/rc5.d directories. The rmnologin file is part of the sysvinit package, and the links to it are installed by the /var/lib/dpkg/info/sysvinit.postinst script during the package configuration. The relevant files are: /etc/init.d/rmnolgin /etc/rc2.d/S99rmnologin -> ../init.d/rmnologin /etc/rc3.d/S99rmnologin -> ../init.d/rmnologin /etc/rc4.d/S99rmnologin -> ../init.d/rmnologin /etc/rc5.d/S99rmnologin -> ../init.d/rmnologin If you're missing some of these, the simplest way to fix it might be to just reinstall the sysvinit package like this: apt-get install --reinstall sysvinit Beyond that, if the script exists in /etc/init.d, but the links aren't there, you can manually install the links by using this command: update-rc.d rmnologin start 99 2 3 4 5 . The period at the end is part of the command. See 'man update-rc.d' for more information. Tom Jeremy Higgs wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having some troubles with a Debian/PPC box running mostly testing > (woody?) packages... > > After starting up, I have noticed that the /etc/nologin file is not > removed, as it should be, and as a result, I cannot SSH or login with > any user except root. Has anyone else encountered this? I'm not sure > why it's happening, except that it started a couple of days ago... > > All of the services start up correctly, and the system seems to have > switched to runlevel 2 and run all of the services there, but the > /etc/nologin file still exists, even after a number of hours... > > Are there any configuration files which could have caused this? > > Thanks...
