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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!psinntp!laidbak!tellab5!cuuxb!nsscmail!ulysses!allegra!hgs From: hgs@allegra.att.com (Henning G. Schulzrinne) Subject: Power outage mangles /etc Message-ID: <1994Jan13.222516.11328@allegra.att.com> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 22:25:16 GMT Lines: 11 Last night, we had a brief power outage. All the 250-odd Suns and SGIs in this part of the lab came back up, with no dire consequences. My eight NCR PCs running NetBSD 0.9 all had random stuff (apparently from some include files) written over the /etc/ directory and who knows where else, forcing a reinstall of the operating system. fsck complained, but couldn't fix anything. While the NCR PCs were on a surge suppressor, most workstations are not. Is this expected behavior (i.e., are commercial derivatives of BSD like SunOS just plain more robust), is it the PC hardware or just a very bad day? Henning Schulzrinne