RE: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 23:12:22 +0100, David Baron wrote: > The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on something like > "deconfiguring inetd". At this point, the keyboard was disabled. I could > escape to another TTY# but could type nothing. The best behaved shutdown at > this

Re: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs

2003-12-26 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:23:23 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 09:15 GMT, David Baron penned: >> Should I so choose to convert to ext3: What options do I give this >> program? I have one big-linux partition (as opposed to separates /etc, >> /usr, etc.) and the swap partition

Re: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs

2003-12-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 09:15 GMT, David Baron penned: > Should I so choose to convert to ext3: What options do I give this > program? I have one big-linux partition (as opposed to separates /etc, > /usr, etc.) and the swap partition. I do not quite undersatnd the > options in the -h listing. > I'

Re: Re: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs

2003-12-26 Thread David Baron
Should I so choose to convert to ext3: What options do I give this program? I have one big-linux partition (as opposed to separates /etc, /usr, etc.) and the swap partition. I do not quite undersatnd the options in the -h listing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-25 Thread David Z Maze
David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on > something like "deconfiguring inetd". The script that's getting run at that point is /etc/init.d/inetd; if this is happening repeatedly, you might look at that script further. > If I "jour

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:28:51 +0100, David Baron wrote: > This would be a good idea. Sometimes, the shutdown fails leaving a damaged > volume. I just did a manual fsck as well and good but it is a bit scarey :-) > > How might I assure such a logout synch? Is there a utility to do this? > Unmount

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:28:51 +0100, David Baron wrote: > This would be a good idea. Sometimes, the shutdown fails leaving a damaged > volume. I just did a manual fsck as well and good but it is a bit scarey :-) > > How might I assure such a logout synch? Is there a utility to do this? > Unmount

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Travis Crump
David Baron wrote: The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on something like "deconfiguring inetd". At this point, the keyboard was disabled. I could escape to another TTY# but could type nothing. The best behaved shutdown at this point as a control./alt/del. It apparently d

RE: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread David Baron
The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on something like "deconfiguring inetd". At this point, the keyboard was disabled. I could escape to another TTY# but could type nothing. The best behaved shutdown at this point as a control./alt/del. It apparently did not flush the di

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:28:51 +0100, David Baron wrote: > This would be a good idea. Sometimes, the shutdown fails leaving a damaged > volume. I just did a manual fsck as well and good but it is a bit scarey :-) > > How might I assure such a logout synch? Is there a utility to do this? > Unmount

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Baron: > > General question: How does one set up a login and logout script -- such as to man bash -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED