David, Well they brought the server back up. Here is the result of the mount command
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.15-51-386/volatile type tmpfs (rw) which is very close to what my other servers look like with the exception of this line: securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) What do you think? thanks Ann David Kaiser wrote: > It's hard to imagine, but... is the /var filesystem mounted readonly? > The error doesn't look like directory permissions, but filesystem issues. > > run the 'mount' command and inspect any filesystems with a portion of > '/var/' in the mountpath, and/or do not contain 'rw' in the mount options. > > > > On 10/26/2011 09:43 AM, Ann wrote: > >> I have a customer with an ubuntu linux server. Last time I made any >> changes for him was in July. Now when I go to copy anything to the >> server I get the following: >> >> cp: cannot create directory >> `/var/lib/tomcat5/backups/Infoportal_test_20111026_0936': Read-only file >> system >> >> It looks like something must have changed, but we have not done anything >> and I am pretty sure neither has he. Any thoughts? >> >> I am signed in as root (please don't give me a lecture) >> thanks >> Ann Richmond >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > -- Ann Richmond ---------------- Randr Inc 951-369-3427 951-787-8683 Fax www.randrinc.com
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