Subj : Failure to communicate
To   : Anybody
From : Spectre
Date : Wed Aug 24 2022 03:01:00

By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes...namely HD
failure....

Some weeks back I had a "bounce" in the power... no biggy in itself,
microwave reset which was about the only thing that made it obvious.  The BBS
system was up and flying all seemed well with the world...

The first problem I noticed a day later when for some reason CRON stopped
producing any mail for its 6 daily tasks.  Odd... are they even running?
Where did they go.  There's a few things that relate directly to the BBS in
there and the rest are stats gathering for my websites.  It turns out all
these items are still running, the proof is in the updated stats pages for
the most part.  Still no idea what's happened to CRON.

Something I did discover though, probably not related but perhaps so, is a
raft of SMART errors. A mixture of deferred writes, lock outs and more
general errors.  Probably no real surprise given its a 190Gb PATA drive, some
~9 years old.  Time to back up whatever appears to be important, and see
about replacing it, and install a new system on it.

Spec


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