[ale] boot botch

[Zot O'Connor]

Matthew Avery wrote:

I know your frstration level is high, but this isn;t very much 
information... 


> I have a major problem with our nameserver.  It's getting
> part way through the setup files in /etc/rc.d and flaking out.
> By that I mean it appears that the system is running, but some
> of the stuff that should definitely be starting during boot-up
> isn't, such as sendmail.

Do you have logs of this?  Have you tried calling the rc.d/* manaully, 
cvould there be  a mount or path problem?

>  On this same machine I had corrupted
> swap space at one time, but since it had 16 Mb of RAM and I'm
> not doing anything with it but routing mail and nameserving I
> just disabled swap, rebooted and let it go. 

Redo the swap space, a couple of spamm mails and 16 MB is not enough.


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