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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
Subject: Re: Re. Server Dissapearing
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On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 13:59:25 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > PS I've now started reading your http://pastebin.com/Td2JetmK
> 
> I see ntpd is complaining too.
> If you dont desperately need NTP, turn it off at least for a week,
> more on that later.

There's something else that might be at least annoying (and _maybe_
correlated to the problem): Various partitions are not properly
dismounted, and if I interpret the messages correctly, a background
file system check is started. This might cause inconsistent file
systems to cause trouble later on.

I'd suggest adding the setting

	background_fsck="NO"

to /etc/rc.conf and make sure the system comes up at least _once_
into a state where all partitions are properly mounted, _or_ if
there is a severe problem with the file systems, the administrator
will be notified accordingly. (Note that background_fsck can only
deal with a subset of possible problems a "real" fsck can).


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...