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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:41:45 +0100 (CET)
From:      "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be>
To:        Phil <ReachMe@Syne-Post.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A boot up problem.
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903121639340.1394-100000@ns.double-barrel.be>
In-Reply-To: <36E92FFE.A389332F@Syne-Post.com>

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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
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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
> 
> 
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