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