IO lockups and ext3 readonly filecorruption on RHEL4 (pre a U4)

[Christian]

sorry for my late reply....

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, tweeks wrote:
> We may try that as we already have a shared NetDump server set up.
> Can i do syslog to BOTH the local machine AND a network syslog server.  If the
> local logs are locked, will my writing to a remote host still work?

yes, if syslogd/syslog-ng is still running, logging to the loghost 
should do. the network and the system has to be working of course.

> hard to tell what works and what doesn't.  If anyone who understands the
> nature of this problem has any suggestions for reliably triggering it, then
> please speak up.

without more details, it's hard to conclude anything, one can only 
*guess* :(

Christian.
-- 
BOFH excuse #377:

Someone hooked the twisted pair wires into the answering machine.