[TriLUG] e2fsck under cron gets retcode=8 operational error

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Ken Mink wrote:

> It took me a while to get caught up on this thread. I 
> didn't see it mentioned before, but are you using the '-y' 
> switch?

no.

> When I read the original post it just sounded like fsck 
> was asking a question and was getting clobbered by cron 
> because it sat too long.

fsck never gets that far. It exits instantly (consecutive 
entries in the log file, with the same timestamp - to the 
second). It would seem that fsck checks for a tty and then 
exits.

Joe

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