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From: Val Kulkov <val@greatis.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI v2.0.1 with distribution innd  -> filesytem problems in daily report
Date: 16 Nov 1995 16:57:31 GMT
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Alan Schneider (alschnei@starlink.com) wrote in comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:
> 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.
>

Alan, I have exactly the same thing. Could you please specify what time frame 
have you assigned between expire and daily fsck? I mean, what time do you 
think is sufficient to get rid of this overlap?

Thank you,
Val