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- From: trant@shire.corp.sgi.com (Ken Trant)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Where have all the messages of fsck gone ?????
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.232728.21679@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 23:27:28 GMT
- References: <1992Sep05.081011.395@rubikon.han.de> <1992Sep8.152213.7160@sci34hub.sci.com>
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- In article <1992Sep8.152213.7160@sci34hub.sci.com>, gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary
- Heston) writes:
- |> In article <1992Sep05.081011.395@rubikon.han.de> toad@rubikon.han.de (Peter
- |> Cleve) writes:
- |>
- |> >I run a little Unix (SYSVR3) maschine for mail & Newsbatching 24 Hours a
- |> day.
- |> >My Problem is: If the power is lost and i'm not sitting in front of the
- |> >machine all the messages of fsck are lost.
- |>
- |> >Is there any way to get the messages of fsck back ???
- |>
- |> Not unless you are running with a terminal for the console (i.e., not
- |> a PC) and hook a printer to it.
- |>
- |> You'd be better off to get a decent UPS that your system can detect,
- |> and trigger an automatic shutdown when power fails.
- |> Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
-
- I won't argue about the UPS but your first statement is incorrect for some
- systems. On SGI's you can look in /etc/fscklogs for a report on fsck errors
- that occured.
-
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