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From: alschnei@starlink.com (Alan Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI v2.0.1 with distribution innd  -> filesytem problems in daily report
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 04:30:09 GMT
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ramoore@atlantech.net (Randy Moore) wrote:

>I am running the INN version that comes with BSDI v2.0.1 
>(does anyone know for sure the version number of innd?) and 
>the daily report created by /etc/daily shows many file system 
>errors (daily reports run about 100 kbytes).  If I dismount 
>these files systems and manually run fsck, it shows no 
>problems.

>My solution has been to disable the daily run of fsck.

>Has anyone else had this "problem" and what possible problems 
>am I causing by not running fsck nightly?

I have had the EXACT same problem.  I arranged the expire and daily
crons to run at such times as they do not overlap.  This overlap is
what causes the problem.  Even with rearrange, I still catch the tail
end of expire.  I'll probably trash the daily and manually run fsck
periodically.
>Thanks for any info or suggestions.

>- Randy Moore