Comment 10 for bug 259965

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 259965] Re: shutdown: unconditionally removes /etc/nologin

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 18:11 +0000, Ryan Lovett wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 08:49:24AM -0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > I'm more than happy to accept the bug that shutdown should not
> > unconditionally remove /etc/nologin as it does - however the description
> > as it stands implies that this is a regression, when this is not backed
> > up by the sysvinit/Debian code which appears identical.
>
> I was just going by the Debian documentation as we don't have any Debian
> systems. If Debian has the bug too perhaps it should be fixed there as
> well. ;)
>
Could you provide a reference to that documentation? It'd help to
understand how things should work.

Scott
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