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

1999-12-15 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

1999-12-14 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 to fix

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 I

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

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