From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 28 21:33:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA29643 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:33:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA29617 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:33:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA23535; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:03:11 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA16479; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:03:10 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980129160310.19228@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:03:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: User Vagnerlaszlo vagner Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with /var again References: <199801290327.VAA00252@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199801290327.VAA00252@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>; from User Vagnerlaszlo vagner on Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 09:27:01PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 09:27:01PM -0600, User Vagnerlaszlo vagner wrote: > oops i forgot to ssend the info doooooh.. > > here is the message i am getting and it doesnt seem to clear. > > UNREF FILE I=53761 OWNER=root MODE=100644 > SIZE=0 MTIME=Jan 28 21:20 1998 > CLEAR? [yn] n > > > how do i fix this. > > typing y to clear doesnt seem to clear it. What I see here is an 'n' reply. It *should* go away if you type 'y'. Is it always the same Inode number? What I see here is a file that was created only two hours ago, if your time zone is right (USA CST). Try this: next time it happens, reply 'y'. Then enter: # fsck /var I would expect it to no longer complain. The other thing to do is to check whether your shutdown works properly. It's possible that you have a process which isn't stopping on SIGTERM. Do you get a 'giving up' message before reboot? That could be the problem. Do you know your 'From:' address is screwed up? Greg