On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 12:38:22PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> I posted a couple of messages about Redhat 6.0 and it's runing of fsck
> after a power fail the otehr day. Never did get a reply.
This is of course normal.
> Could someone please give me some avice on this?
>
> I have set up a Redhat 6.0 machine for some friends. Unfortunately they
> seem to sufering from unreliable power. So far every time this has
> happend, they have had to run fsck manual. That is the system has
> stoped at the single suer prompt and insisted that they do this.
They should invest in a UPS! Eventually they may wind up with a hosed
system. Office Depot had the dumb APCs recently for $69 (US).
> Most UN*X systems that I am familair wiht make a first effor to d this
> autmaticly, and only require manual intervention it things are really
> bad.
This is my experience with RH. Mostly fsck runs OK on its own. If
it thinks there may be a 'serious' problem, it drops to single user
prompt so you can repair things yourself and see better what the
problems might be. Better safe than sorry.
If for reason RH6.0 is actually 6.1, do the updates. There is some
glitch with this in 6.1 (e2fsprogs) which behaves just as you are
describing, ie always dumped to linux single prompt.
> Looking at teh Redhat startup scripts, it apperas that I may need to ad
> a /fsckoptions file wiht -p in it to acomplish this.
>
> Is this correct? Or is somethign else wrong with this system?
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