On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Lucas wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone please help me interpret the following messages: > > during boot: > > "/dev/hda3 (my Linux part.) has reached maximal mount count ... forced > check...."
This is a harmless message. If you mount and unmount an ext2 partition a certain number of times, fsck checks it just to make sure it doesn't contain any errors. On an ext2 partition there is a counter which is reset when you check it. When you unmount a partition (I think it is then) it is increased by one. When the counter reaches a certain value (I believe 20 or 25), the partition is checked the next time you run fsck on it, no matter what. > second message (only as regular user, not as root): > > $man [whatever] > (the man page does display, but with a message that obviously concerns > permissions:) > > "man: can't create /var/catman/cat1/XXX(some number) > man: can't unlink /var/catman/cat1/XXX: Permission denied" This could mean /var/catman has, somehow, got the wrong permissions. You can correct this by running these two commands as root: # rm -rf /var/catman # mkcatdirs man root 0755 For an explanation of the mkcatdirs command, run it with no parameters. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
