Re: disabling remount ro on errors

1999-12-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: : On 14/12/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : >they should be. I did a clean install onto this disk. The old disk : >ran for months with the stock kernel. When it wouldn't talk to the : >network, I cp -R'd /etc and /lib from the old drive. : : you

Re: disabling remount ro on errors

1999-12-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On 14/12/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: they should be. I did a clean install onto this disk. The old disk ran for months with the stock kernel. When it wouldn't talk to the network, I cp -R'd /etc and /lib from the old drive. you might try (cd / ; tar -cvpf - lib) | (cd /mnt/ ; tar -xvpf -)

Re: disabling remount ro on errors

1999-12-14 Thread William Burrow
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:55:11PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Did you run fsck on the filesystem? The cron job triggering the problem > > might be something like updatedb that touches everything on the disk. > > Fix the filesystem and the problem will go away. > > oh, yes. I fsck, and

Re: disabling remount ro on errors

1999-12-14 Thread hawk
william wiled, > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:06:12PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yesterday was the first sunday in a month that my hardrive didn't > > switch to ro due to errors on the weekly cron run. The remount as ro > > both stops incoming mail, and makes it impossible to telnet in t

Re: disabling remount ro on errors

1999-12-13 Thread William Burrow
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:06:12PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I know I'm playing with fire here, but I'm backed into a corner. ... > Yesterday was the first sunday in a month that my hardrive didn't > switch to ro due to errors on the weekly cron run. The remount as ro > both stops inc

disabling remount ro on errors

1999-12-13 Thread hawk
OK, I know I'm playing with fire here, but I'm backed into a corner. On saturday, I leave for three weeks. Immediately afteards, I fly to Boston for interviews that get set up during those weeks. I *must* have email functioning on this account. Yesterday was the first sunday in a month that