Re: [cobalt-developers] (RaQ2) Werid permissions disaster.

[Niels Poppe <niels@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ariel Manzur wrote:
> 
> At 20:02 18/05/2000 +0200, you wrote:
> >Ariel Manzur wrote:
> >> So I go to /home/sites, and type "ls -l home" and get this:
> >>
> >> br-SrwSr-t 28750 25970    21839     33,  34 Nov  1  2014 home
> [...]
> >> Any ideas? also, is there any log to see what could have caused this?
> >>
> >
> >Still there ?:( I'v seen such on an old Qube (one of the first),
> >but it was on a few binaries (chmod for one!) and not on a directory.
> >
> >Logs are in /var/log but a lot of cryptic kernel driver errors is
> >all you can expect there.
> >
> >Hookup a terminal to the serial port, get logged in and if you get
> >that far, do
> [...]
> 
> Hi! thanks for your help.. but,
> 
> the server is on California and I'm on Buenos Aires (Argentina, the south
> part of southamerica). I'd need a long cable.. :) Also, the server has a
> lot of sites, I can't take them down.. I was thinking on doing only the "mv
> home junk" and "mkdir home" part, without all the fsck stuff.. Would that
> mess up the rest of the disk? (should I even try?)
> 

You can try to rename /home. It will probably fail, but if it doesn't,
mkdir /home again. At least, when you are lucky and the machine reboots
one day, the fsck will take place and /home is accessible again.

As the server has a lot of sites, i'd take this seriously. It *will*
stop
working some day. See if you can backup as much as you can using ftp.

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Niels Poppe - org.net bv <niels@xxxxxxxxxx>