From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 14:37:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE7037B4C5 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:37:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from shootthemlater.demon.co.uk ([194.222.93.84] helo=cerebus.parse.net) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13sYPd-000Ink-0Y for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:37:17 +0000 Received: from elf.putney.parse.net ([10.0.0.10] helo=elf) by cerebus.parse.net with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13sYPV-0005R6-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2000 22:37:09 +0000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20001105223907.00803150@dmg.parse.net> X-Sender: dmg@dmg.parse.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 22:39:07 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: David Goddard Subject: Remotely recovering from a crash Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). 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. My question is: Is there any way to configure the system so that it automatically attempts to recover and (hopefully) boots? Alternatively, can someone let me know why this would be a Bad Idea anyway :-) The system in question is running a fairly recent -STABLE, but I'm assuming this is not a -stable specific question. I have soft updates enabled on some of the filesystems, including /tmp. Thanks, Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message