On 2/26/20 8:52 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
Are you ssh'ing in as root? If not, is your user's $HOME on the
machine's failing disk, or another (remote?) drive?
and I replied (off-List, and *not* intentionally so):
Yes. As root.
Oh, and one other thing, the thing that brought this to my attention in the
first place: something in the server cage is emitting a faint beep (or perhaps
a faint squeak of a dying hard drive), every second or so. I think it's coming
from that selfsame box.
I signed on again via ssh, intending to just shut the thing down for
good, and noticed two things:
1. "shutdown" didn't work
2. It was telling me I'd last signed on sometime in January, when in
fact, I'd signed on yesterday.
Further investigation of #1 led me to find out that it was getting a
disk error just trying to shut itself down.
It's clearly toast. So I did a hard shutdown (and disconnected the
power, for good measure.
And it *was* the source of the faint beeping.
--
JHHL
