Shared root and shutdown

2010-08-08 Thread Leland Lucius
For you "shared root crazies" out there, how did you get /etc to unmount during shutdown? (on SLES10) I've been tinkering around with this and everything works well except that it won't unmount /etc during shutdown since it's in use by the "rc" script(s) when boot.localfs runs. And since /etc i

Re: Consistency groups for ZLinux Oracle environment

2010-08-08 Thread David Boyes
How are you taking the backup? If you're using anything but an application running inside the virtual machine (eg RMAN to disk, or another app that uses the Oracle APIs to get the data), you're going to lose, and you get the problem you've observed. The virtual machine probably has loads of stuff i

Consistency groups for ZLinux Oracle environment

2010-08-08 Thread Joseph Higgins
Hello, Is there any way to maintain consistency for point in time copies without suspending the server IO? This is an Oracle environment. After taking a point in time copy we are unable to start the Oracle server from the target PIT volumes because the control and index files are not in sync.

Re: CRON

2010-08-08 Thread John Summerfield
John Summerfield wrote: Mark Pace wrote: Is there an easy way to make cron not send me an email every time it runs one of my jobs? I have one job that runs every 15 mins, and as you may imagine that generates a lot of mail. Or is there a way clean up an mbox without manually doing it? man 5

Re: CRON

2010-08-08 Thread John Summerfield
Mark Pace wrote: Is there an easy way to make cron not send me an email every time it runs one of my jobs? I have one job that runs every 15 mins, and as you may imagine that generates a lot of mail. Or is there a way clean up an mbox without manually doing it? man 5 crontab The version of c