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Simon Williams wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > >> Hi Simon, >> >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 12:36:25AM +0100, Simon Williams wrote: >> >>> It wasn't long before I discovered that the cause of the problem was >>> that I could not write to the root filesystem. >>> I've checked permissions (and I'm root anyway), mount shows rw option, >>> df shows plenty of free space. >>> >> Have you had a look through the logs and the output of "dmesg"? >> Filesystems will often remount themselves read-only in response to >> filesystem corruption and/or disk IO errors. >> > > fsck.ext3 -n /dev/hda1 shows a whole bunch of errors. > > Of course the question is- how do I fix the root filesystem when all I > have is ssh access? > > And I'm sure that the samba log files having filenames of ever > increasing length isn't helping- for some reason smbd.log and nmbd.log > are not being handled correctly by syslog, and end up with names like > smb.log.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 (these get quite long- I have > to delete them every so often). Any ideas? > > Thanks > Simon > > A correctly configured logrotate should take care of that last problem for you.. As for the first one... IP KVM ? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html