tim@dciem.UUCP (Tim Pointing) (01/12/88)
Site "dciem" is finally back up and fully functional after 1 week without
a root filesystem. Because of this long delay in bringing the system back to
life, most of the news that was on dciem when it went down expired soon after
we came back up. This means that, unfortunately, the sites that we feed have
lost about 7 or 8 days worth of news (more for those sites that were far behind
in picking-up/accepting their news.)
For those sites whom we call - good news. Our ACU is now back in service.
As it turns out, it was never damaged - another board on the UNIBUS was
dragging other devices down with it.
Tim Pointing, DCIEM
dciem!tim
P.S. remember to be careful when fsck'ing the root filesystem...
"fsck -t tempfile /dev/rroot" looks very much like
"fsck -ttempfile /dev/rroot" but behaves VERY differently!!
I didn't type it but that's what happened. The fact that we were almost
unable to use our backup tapes didn't help us come back to life! I'm glad
that we'll be pitching the 11/70 in the next 6 months or so.
--
Tim Pointing, DCIEM
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