Subject: Re: why remove my backups? (Fwd: nanook daily insecurity output for Thu Nov 14 03:15:01 EST 2002)
To: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
From: Charlie Allom <charlie@rubberduck.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/15/2002 00:20:11
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:50:22PM +0000, Ian Fry wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:45:08AM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> > >why would my machine have removed my backups of my disklabels? The RCS
> > >files are still there, I understand - I am curious in the internal
> > >workings here ..
> > it has "removed" them from the list of things it checks every night
> > because you have apparently deconfigured your ccd.  
> 
> No, that's not it - I had the same thing happen to me last night, except that
> the backup disklabels for my two hard disks were removed.
> 
> The only thing I can think of that might cause this is that I updated to a
> 1.6K kernel yesterday, and this has the changes to the disk stats. I wonder

Ah yes. I went from J -> K last night.

> if this is causing disklabel to fail? I get several messages in the daily log
> about iostat failing.

I haven't seen, or can grep for any errors regarding iostat, though.

  C.
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