My post:
We have a couple of Alpha's that have done this, a 3000 and an axp150.
The /tcb/files/auth/r/root file becomes overwritten.
Once it was a script that is set to run 5 minutes after bootup, all of its stdout
messages were caught in the file.
This morning it was part of a config file.
These machines never did this before the upgrade (I went from OSF V3.2[a?] to
V3.2B).
Has anyone else seen this behavior?
Someone had suggested that perhaps init is not carefully freeing file descriptors.
It's a real PITA to have to go to the console and reconstruct the file.
-Shirl
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I got a couple of "me too"'s, but no REAL solution.
One person had this happen under advfs (which we are not running).
Another person had seen this when / filled. This is most disturbing. You'd think
the OS would simply fail to write rather than write over files!
I did reduce the used space under /, and it hasn't happened since (which is not
a statement of resolution, as it had only happened 3 times before).
-Shirl Grant
grant_at_psc.edu
Received on Fri Apr 05 1996 - 18:45:12 NZST