Hello all,

I have a server that always has the root filesystem set to read-only every time the box is rebooted. As I am still basically a newbie *NIX I am not sure where to look or what to look for that might be causing this issue.

Also, would / being set to RO on boot cause syslog to not start properly?

Thank you in advance!

well the root filesystem is initially mounted read only but it should be in this state after bootup

what do u have in ur

/etc/fstab file???

regards

if i am not wrong syslog is a daemon taking part in system log functions so maybe is not related to read only setting

/etc/fstab

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

syslog is set to be started under run levels 2-5 yet isn't starting automatically when the box is booted. Since / is still set to RO after the boot process completes I was thinking the issues might be related.

TTT

Hoping someone can help me with this one...

hi there

ur fstab file looks fine

what made u think that it is booting in read-only mode???

The fact that I have to execute "mount /dev/sda2 -o rw,remount" after every reboot of this box in order for it to allow anything to be written to /.