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

[Ariel Manzur <punto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 15:05 19/05/2000 +0200, you 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?

>> >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
[...]
>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.

Actually the server did reboot once after I found this error.. The uptime
was 175 days, and I found this, so I started playing a little with chmod
(the file is brwxrwsr-x now) and then I reboot. It's still working..

Thanks.. bye..

Ariel.