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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Init 6 & Init 0 problem Post 82761 by rhfrommn on Tuesday 6th of September 2005 10:36:35 AM
Old 09-06-2005
The fact that it logs you out and asks for a login prompt instead of changing runlevels, plus the fact that it isn't giving any error messages or locking up makes me think somebody did this on purpose. If the init file was corrupted I would expect worse behavior than just logging you out.

Check root's login scripts and see if anybody aliased init 0 and init 6 to logout or something similar. Maybe this was done as a way to prevent mistakes, similar to how some people alias rm to rm -i . . . .
 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

ac

AC(8)							      System Manager's Manual							     AC(8)

NAME

       ac - login accounting

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/ac [ -w wtmp ] [ -p ] [ -d ] [ people ] ...

DESCRIPTION

       Ac  produces a printout giving connect time for each user who has logged in during the life of the current wtmp file.  A total is also pro-
       duced.  -w is used to specify an alternate wtmp file.  -p prints individual totals; without this  option,  only	totals	are  printed.	-d
       causes  a printout for each midnight to midnight period.  Any people will limit the printout to only the specified login names.	If no wtmp
       file is given, /usr/adm/wtmp is used.

       The accounting file /usr/adm/wtmp is maintained by init and login.  Neither of these programs creates the file, so if it does not exist	no
       connect-time  accounting  is  done.  To start accounting, it should be created with length 0.  On the other hand if the file is left undis-
       turbed it will grow without bound, so periodically any information desired should be collected and the file truncated.

FILES

       /usr/adm/wtmp

SEE ALSO

       init(8), sa(8), login(1), utmp(5).

4th Berkeley Distribution					 November 16, 1996							     AC(8)
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