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Subject: RE: script help thanks !!!
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 14:25:25 -0400
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If it HAS to be done, try "expect". It's located in the ports. If you
have another machine that can commnicate over to the soon-to-be single
user machine's console serial port, you might be able to work
something out with that.
-Otter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Giorgos
> Keramidas
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 5:42 AM
> To: faisal gillani
> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG; mwm@mired.org
> Subject: Re: script help thanks !!!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: faisal gillani <fasi_74@yahoo.com>
> Subject: script help thanks !!!
> Date: Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:24:55AM -0700
>
> > well friend
> >
> > i am a newbie .. i wanted a script that runs in a non
> > busy hour on my server
> > & automatically runs fsck on my files systems ..
> > before that turn itself
> > into single user mode
>
> What is the point of fsck'ing regularly a filesystem that is working
> fine until that moment?  More importantly, why bring a
> working server
> to single user mode on a regular basis, possibly interrupting some
> work it's doing?  How are you going to find out *when* the
> right time
> will be, to shut down everything?
>
> No, what you are asking can't be done in a single script;
> and I don't
> see a reason why one would like to do it.
>
> -giorgos
>
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