[Gllug] Gun for hire? RAQ needs fixing...

[will]

>> However it's likely that I'll need to go to Red Bus and serial in with
>> a laptop to try and fix things. I've never done this and want (to
>> hire) help. My supplier (clara.net) apparently doesn't offer this form
>> of support!
>>
>> Moreover, I think that won't help and an OS restore is going to be
>> coming so, will need to get the hard disk out (BTW it's a RAQ4R -
>> RAID), back up the sites and databases, do the OS restore, restore the
>> data, blah, blah....
>
> I can't imagine that it'd require so severe a remedy as that -- full
> hard  drives happen all the time. Root is often provided 5% of the disk
> space above  and beyond everything else in order to help handle this
> sort of thing.  Userspace apps (like the email, ssh, etc) might well
> fall over because they  can't create any more files, but you should be
> able to log in and delete  files just fine.
>
> But why serial? There should be a spare keyboard and monitor hanging
> around at  competent centers (certainly, Telehouse offers same.)

Because Cobalt Raqs are big piles of poop.

I resist the temptation to suggest a fix to the problem being to put a
decent server in ;-)

Will.



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