Stefan Esser writes:
> On 1999-01-11 23:11 +0100, Ollivier Robert <robe...@keltia.freenix.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Beware of something that can be deadly for a "make installworld". When
> > using SU, space freed by "rm" takes a bit more time to be taken into
> > account
> > and you can fill "/" or "/usr" up because the space recovered by "install"
> > is not yet freed.
> >
> > It happened to me a few times for "/usr" and one time for "/". Having
> > "/bin/sh" with a 0-byte size is not good for booting :-)
>
> Yes, that forced me to turn off soft-updates for the / file system.
> I was lucky not to have tried rebooting the system, since then there
> would not have been a chance to invoke a shell (and lots of other
> binaries that had not made it to /bin and /sbin) from within /usr/obj !
Maybe something like this was happening to me yesterday. I too have
softupdates on root and everything. Rebooted more times yesterday than
ever messing with a soundcard and updating kernel. 4 or 5 times
/etc/nologin did not get unlinked before the system halted. Forced me to
login as root to remove the troublemaker manually. The problem always
happened when I issued shutdown as myself (not root) but as a member of
group operator. But has now cured itself possibly due to replacing /etc/
login.{conf,access} and /etc/rc* with current versions. This is what /
etc/nologin contained altho "shutdown -r now" was the command used:
NO LOGINS: System going down at 18:00
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David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@nospam.hiwaay.net
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