Tom Sightler wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 23:40 +0200, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
>> Problem
>> =====
>> This leaves me with no "remote" way to fix serious errors such as FS
>> checking
>> Suggestion
>> =======
>> Is there such a thing as remote serial console. I'm thinking *if* the
>> kernel gets to boot, then it immediately starts the network interface,
>> and a tiny server for sending console messages to whoever is
>> connected. I should be able to fix FS corruption and other serious
>> problems. My question is, does such a thing exist ?
>>
> If most of your problems are simply moderately serious filesystem
> corruption that you repair by running fsck and answering "y" to all the
> questions (which is what most people seem to do) then you can probably
> just add the file /etc/sysconfig/autofsck with contents like:
>
> AUTOFSCK_OPT="-y"
>

I've often wondered how many people are competent (as in able to make
informed decisions) about the questions a manual fsck presents.

I still feel much the same as I did when I was presented with my first
one, around RHL (not RHEL) 4.x or earlier:
??
<shrug>
e2fsck -y ...
xx fingers.
Seems okay.

>


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John

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