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Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:49:09 -0800
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: David Goddard <goddard@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Remotely recovering from a crash
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 10:39:07PM +0000, David Goddard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm about to place a FreeBSD box in colocation and I'm trying to do
> everything I can to minimise the need to physically visit the box in order
> to get it up again after a crash (I've had more than one situation where it
> spontaneously rebooted, at least one of which was of the typing dumb
> commands as root variety).

Then don't do that. ;)

> The problem I am getting is that after an unclean shutdown, it always
> complains that the /tmp filesystem is unclean and I have to run fsck -p
> from the console.  It is only the /tmp fs that this happens to, I presume
> because that was the only one being actively used when the box went down.

It might also be the way it is entered in /etc/fstab. What's the pass
number?
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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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