On Tuesday 14 September 2004 06:53 pm, Roland Hill wrote:
Hi there,
I wonder if anyone could give me a few pointers? Running SuSE 8.2Pro.
I had a power cut last night while composing an email in mutt. When I brought the server back up I had the folloing issues:
- A lot of file permissions changed. Generally to root.root. This crashed postfix. I found all/some of the problems and postfix started. I noticed some of 'my' files had also changed in the same way.
- xinetd refuses to start. I reinstalled it from an RPM still no joy. This means that things like dial on demand refuse to work (yep I'm on a modem).
- I use qmail style Maildirs for message storage. Some of these appear 'stuffed'. In some cases the whole maildir has lost the dir setting, and now looks like a binary file. In other cases the 'new' or 'cur' sub-dirs have also lost the dir 'bit'
And that are the bits I have found! I have no idea what else is 'broken'.
I'm running software RAID0 with Ext3 format.
Is there any advice anyone could offer before I backup my configs and start all over?
A good friend reminded me about running fschk over the drive (didn't do it last night due to mild panaic attack <g>), so I will do this tonight. All ideas are most welcome.
-- Regards,
Roland
I wold start by booting from the cd and go into the repair mode, automatic, and let SuSE try to fix the problem. Then I would go out and buy a UPS for about $50 bucks and try to head off the next power glitch. Richard -- Old age ain't for Sissies!