On 07/09/2013 08:04 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 07:50:34PM +1200, Rob Kampen wrote: >> So then I go to log in and get "POWER FAILURE" followed by >> "Authentication failure" - this is on the console >> >> via SSH I just get "POWER FAILURE" and the ssh connection drops. > Sounds like /etc/nologin; contents of which are displayed immediately > before the login session terminates. Configured within apcupsd.conf > with a configuration setting of NOLOGINDIR pointing to /etc by default; > I don't believe it can be disabled, however. Thanks John, I'll look for this file. >> So I guess the, log everyone out and stop further logins instruction >> is still lurking around somewhere. >> >> How do I regain control of my server?? > Remove /etc/nologin. > >> Does this mean I need to boot with a rescue disk and edit some file >> somewhere?? > "ssh root at host rm -f /etc/nologin" will remove it. > >> How do I prevent this re-occurring, after a perfect shutdown and >> restart, only to get stymied here. not an option, already set no root login via ssh. however I have console access, so a <Ctrl><Alt>F7 got me another tty and root login from there worked. now to debug the apcupsd.... Thanks for the help - appreciated > apcupsd should be handling this automatically when mains power is > restored. Perhaps check the package documentation / project bugtracker. > > > > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos