Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:14:20 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: before i even =touch= my server again.... Message-ID: <20100623051418.GA80985@thought.org>
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a friend was over to help with things; among them was the fact that
for unknown reasons, my KVM wired don't worse consistantly from my
single keyboad to my [new{2009}] server. things happened so that we
didn't double-check before my friend left.
mail broke for unknown reasons. i KVM'd into ethic and fired up
dovecot. no-joy. then i figured a theraputic reboot was in order.
Disaster. all hell broke loose. i lost keyboard connection to ethic
and coul not ssh in from tao. long-story-short, after bugging my wife
to reboot umpteen time i got under desk four or five time and got ethic
limping along. fsck seemed to fix most slices, but a check as root
told me the /var was//IS still dirty. Q: how can i umount /var
and run fsck -y without going single-user? remember that in order to
regain keyboard control of ethic i have to crawl under deskm, muck
around, etc.
an hour+ ago i tried to umount /var AND umount /dev/ad4s2d and keep
getting a busy. for obvious reasons that my logs are being written to
constantly. how does fsck work, backgrounded?
[[note that shutting of /etc/mail wouldn't work because my /var/log
directory is constantly filling up with the kiddie cracker output.]]
thanks for any ideas,
gary
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