[SunHELP] Help please

[Kevin Stevens]

Not here.  Check the message ID.  If it's the same, it's probably at the end
of your MTA.  If it's different, the source is probably spewing multiple
messages.

KeS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Ricker" <bricker at wellinx.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 12:12
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Help please


> I have received about 25 of the exact same message from the exact same
> sender this whole past weekend: is anyone else having this problem?
>
> Ben Ricker
>
> On Fri, 25 May 2001 17:03:23 +0200 Steffen Grunewald wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > It seems that a power outage happenend and have corrupted the files
> > > /var/adm/utmpx and utmp.
> > > When the system came back after power came back we get the msgs:
> > >
> > > INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmp or /var/adm/utmpx
> > >
> > > INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"   "
> > >
> > > INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"   "
> > >
> > > INIT: Single User Mode
> >
> > On Fri 2001-05-25 (08:17), Lund, Dennis wrote:
> > > At my last job this error was caused because /var was not mounted at the
> > > boot time when the
> > > system wants to write to /var/adm/utmp.  Without /var mounted at
> > boot time,
> > > the /var/adm path
> > > does not exist.  What we did to avoid this message was to unmount
> > /var and
> > > create the
> > > path /var/adm.  This creates the path from /.
> > >
> > > What it does is make the path /var/adm available at boot time
> > without having
> > > /var mounted.
> >
> > Double Ouch!
> >
> > 0. Please learn to quote.
> >
> > 1. There is an entry "mount at boot" in /etc/vfstab which should make
> > sure that /var _is_ available for init. If there is a problem with
> > the partition though, this might not help, of course.
> >
> > BTW, the notation "mount at boot = no" (which is the correct setting for
> > crucial filesystems) is a bit confusing: "no" means that the fs already
> > has to be mounted.
> >
> > 2. There's a chance that the whole /var fs got corrupted during the power
> > outage :(
> >
> > Steffen
> > --
> >  Steffen Grunewald | GFZ | PB 2.2 | Telegrafenberg E3 | D-14473 Potsdam
> >   email: steffen(at)gfz-potsdam.de | fax/fon: +49-331-288-1266/-1245 
> >   I have nothing to declare but my genius              --- Oscar Wilde
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>
>
> --------
>
> Ben Ricker
> System Adminstrator
> Wellinx.com
>
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