From: Joy Almacen (joy@empexis.com)
Date: Fri Mar 1 11:28:22 2002
Andrew, It seems that you will have to eventually reboot the server and do work on it for a couple of hours. Here's my advice. You will have to prepare, when you still have the time, to migrate your services to a temporary box. Get all your installed apps and data temporarily transferred to a box that can hold the demands of your site services. It doesn't matter if it is not as high-end as the existing one, a slower server is better than a dead one ;-) After that, change your DNS settings to have a TTL set to the lowest possible value, in one case I did 5 minutes. Change the zone files to redirect traffic to the temporary server. Once you migrated everything, you should be able to work on that machine. After you had your main server fixed, transfer everything back to this rehabilitated server, the apps and services first and then change the DNS not the TTL yet but the entries, this way you can revert back to the backup server just in case. If everything is fine, go ahead and change the TTL to your preference. I do not know how big your site is but I believe this is a safe approach. Good luck, Joy ard@waikato.ac.nz wrote: >Hi folks. As punishment for installing too much Dell kit, one of my >older Compaqs has started complaining to me: > >Mar 1 08:26:51 kernel: Non Fatal error on ida/c0d0 >Mar 1 08:28:43 kernel: Non Fatal error on ida/c0d0 >Mar 1 09:14:56 kernel: Non Fatal error on ida/c0d0 >Mar 1 09:23:21 kernel: Non Fatal error on ida/c0d0 >Mar 1 09:53:17 kernel: Non Fatal error on ida/c0d0 >Mar 1 09:59:15 kernel: Non Fatal error on ida/c0d0 >Mar 1 10:04:41 kernel: Non Fatal error on ida/c0d0 >Mar 1 10:09:38 kernel: Non Fatal error on ida/c0d0 > >c0d0 is a mirror of two 10krpm 9G disks on a DL380 running 2.4.17 in >Slackware. Neither disk is showing a red LED. > >I'm not running cpqhealth because a) I didn't know about it until reading >the archives of this wonderful list just now and b) it won't run on >2.4.17 according to same. > >I can't reboot the server to run the SmartStart diag tools from CD. >18,000 people are using it. > > >So I'm kind of stuck at this point. Unless a disk blows for good the >local Compaq office won't pick up the 'phone. I can't install cpqhealth >because of the kernel I'm using. All I can do is bleat "help!?" and hope >the error goes away. > > >Help!? > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: compaqandlinux-unsubscribe@van-dijk.net For additional commands, e-mail: compaqandlinux-help@van-dijk.net For the archives : http://www.van-dijk.net
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