Well, they got the server back up. Said /etc/rc.d/rc.local was "complete
gobledegook".
I'm back in and everything else seems to be in OK shape.
Is there a fairly straightforward way to upgrade the kernel and XFS? I'm a
little wary of using 2.4.5 because of the swapping issues. But it might be
worth a shot.
> Well, check the Linux mailing lists -- reading those, and having battled
> with a Tyan Tiger 133 for ages now, I would be extremely hesistant depend
> on anything with a VIA chip set onboard. I'm sure that they'll get it
> right at some point, but at the moment, stability and reliability still
> seems to equal Intel, and then preferably a 440BX chip set.
well I certainly can't replace the motherboard. Unless things *really* get
bad and that's the only possible solution.
If this happens again I'll probably just have them install Debian + ext2.
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