THanks for the reply. I tried and it didn't work. The strange thing is
that all other services like ftp and http work fine. I even checked the
inet.conf and telnet is not disabled. Any suggestion of other possible
source of the problem? Thanks
John
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > My linux server was running ok until one day it suddenly started rejecting
> > telnet request. Whenever I try to telnet remotely into the server, it
> ...
> > problem. I checked the etc directory and there is no file called "nologin"
> > there.
>
> >From the man page for "shutdown":
>
> If shutdown is called with a delay, it creates
> the advisory file /etc/nologin which causes
> programs such as login(1) to not allow new user
> logins. Shutdown only removes this file if it
> is stopped before it can signal init (i.e. it
> is cancelled or something goes wrong). Other
> wise it is the responsibility of the system
> shutdown or startup scripts to remove this file
> so that users can login.
>
> Try "shutdown -c", just in case a shutdown is pending, and remove that
> file.
>
> MSG
>
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