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- Subject: Re: Dead Server
- From: Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 04:44:03 -0700 (PDT)
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Re: Dead Server
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Shaman wrote:
>
> The eskinews server is failing to respond for over half an hour now.
> What's the deal? The EMail one is working as apperent is the WWW
> one but usenet is dead. I've ran 3 different programs to confirm this.
I had to reboot it and it didn't halt gracefully. That required that
fsck be run on the file systems. Running fsck on a 27gb partition with 800,000
files (the news spool), takes approximately one hour and fifteen minutes,
and that is why it was down for as long as it was.