[ILUG] /etc/mtab...

[kevin lyda]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 06:05:39PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 12:43:15AM +0000, kevin lyda mentioned:
> > now that i think of it though, kate stood near it a month or so back...
>  That's pretty weak, to be honest. I've stood near hundreds of machines,
> that haven't died. yet.

:)

>  Anyway. Could be worse. When /etc/passwd is a named pipe shit really goes
> wierd.

aiyee!

paul's theory is the best i've heard so far.  well, best as in most
likely, not best as in "hey!  i like that!  do it again!"  sadly it did
do it again.  i think the ups monitor is waiting too long to shut down
the machine.  so it's midway through killing the machine when the juice
runs dry.

sadly this means the /etc/mtab inode has just been frobbed recently at
the point of death so when it comes back it comes back wrong (kind of
like buffy in season 6 really...[0]).  in this case wrong means it's a
directory, not that spike can attack it[1].

my apologies for suggesting that the "looney field" had anything to do
with this.  :)

kevin

[0] paul runs screaming
[1] see [0].

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