This is a followup to my note of the other day, the essence of which was:
My Debian 1.3 box has been running with no major problems for many
months. Suddenly, a few days ago, the cron job that runs find every morning
starting sending root a report saying that many directories did not
exist. For example:
find: /usr/local/maple/update: No such file or directory
find: /usr/local/netscape: No such file or directory
If I simply issue the command "find /usr -name some.file", I get exactly
the same set of error messages.
For those who are curious, I did eventually find the solution. The
problem was a corrupted filesystem. Nasty messages started showing up in
/var/log/messages the same night I started getting strange output from
cron. Once I spotted these, I booted from the Debian rescue disk, ran
e2fsck -f on the partition, and discovered all sorts of horrible errors.
What caused the problem in the first place, I have no idea.
James G. MacKinnon Department of Economics
phone: 613 545-2293 Queen's University
Fax: 613 545-2257 Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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