[wellylug] CentOS maintainance

[John Durham]

On 25/06/2010 8:55 a.m., Mark Foster wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, John Durham wrote:
>
>> On 24/06/2010 7:05 p.m., David Harrison wrote:
>>> The default ext3 filesystem on Centos/Red Hat is generally pretty
>>> robust.
>>> If fsck didn't run when you powered the server up, you may want to run a
>>> full disk scan just to make sure everything is okay.
>>>
>>> 'shutdown -rF' will reboot the server and run fsck on all disks.
>>>
>>> If you are running a database on your server you may want to check
>>> them out.
>>>
>>> For MySQL, 'mysqlcheck -Aor' will repair and optimise all your local
>>> databases.
>>>
>>>
>> Just been through all the variations at the server command prompt. It
>> produced error messages but I finally got it to work. The server
>> restarted moments ago.
>>
>> From here on I cannot see if the system is serving up pages yet. It
>> would help if you could visit the site to confirm the service is
>> functioning properly. Please use the link in my footer.
>
> Proxies such as anonymizer.com give you a means to 'look back' on
> yourself as if from outside.
Thanks. I had a look at it, but as so many sites do, the want you to buy 
the product first before you confirm it is useful. It seems just as 
effective to have a friend check it out and owe him/her a favour.

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