From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 7:43: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from angel.double-barrel.be (mail.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239B714D26; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 07:42:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be) Received: from ns.double-barrel.be (ns.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.18]) by angel.double-barrel.be (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA00650; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:41:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (mvergall@localhost) by ns.double-barrel.be (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA01409; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:41:45 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:41:45 +0100 (CET) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" To: Phil Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A boot up problem. In-Reply-To: <36E92FFE.A389332F@Syne-Post.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, One idea I may have is to check if the /etc/rc file does not have error's in them and theh check the perms on the fsck binaries and if they exist ... also are they statically linked or not. Michael --- Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Phil wrote: > Geeez the ISP where my box is located keeps having power outages on their floor > from somebody down the hall. > > And so they restart the machine (Fortunately they also run FreeBSD) and it won't > automatically CLEAN the disks and it just stops. > The sysadmin there manually cleans the disk and then it continues. > > Here's a message form him as he is probably more clear than I; > > Doubly so because your unix > system also seems to not want to automatically check the filesystems after > an improper shutdown, which keeps it from finishing booting until > it gets some manual intervention. I'm really curious as to why that is, > and I'd actually like to look into it sometime. > > Well that actually doesn't look very technical to me does it. > > Anyhow. What can I do to find out why it doesn't want to automatically check the > file system and clean it?? > > > Phil > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message