[svlug] In which PPP fails to work with 2.1.125 and we solve an old problem

[Bevan Schroeder]

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Michael K Vance wrote:

> does a periodic maintenance scan? It gave me a '/dev/hda1 has reached maximal
> mount count' (paraphrase) message during my last boot (many to track down the

Yup, normal.

> route problem, plus kernel flipping fun), and then started a quick fsck. Two
> non-zero dtimes later, everything was finished. Normal? fsck still fails to
> find/fix a whole directory of files that believe they are character and block
> devices, with spurious driver numbers, etc., and that seem impervious to
> removal (I even wrote a utility that called unlink()--to no avail). If anyone
> has any ideas how to remove these, I would be very grateful.

man chattr
There's also a file-removal howto floating around somewhere that's an
interesting read.  Especially if you are the prankster type and can hack
root on your friend's box. :)
----------	root	root	1726985716586235	hello
(course, that's just 'extend', after that you chattr it)
(ok, so they can't get quite THAT big...)

-bevan


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