RE: corruption during power loss
On 15-Sep-2000 Michael Soulier wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote:
>
>> About half the time that I experience power failures, I need to run fsck on
>> my
>> Debian system.
>
> So, have you had to reinstall packages? With RedHat/Mandrake, I
> would immediately do an rpm -Va to verify everything, but I quickly found
> out that several packages would complain about being broken even after a
> fresh install, so the information was useless.
I had to reinstall one or two packages once, including inetd, because
/etc/inetd.conf had gotten corrupted. Other than that, I have not had to
install packages after a power failure. I need to get a UPS.
--
Andrew
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