My Sun ES450 with Solaris 8 running kind of crashed hard. On re-boot the machine told me to run fsck manually for the file system where I have /var mounted. It's a seperate device from other file systems. I ran fsck with the -y option since there were HUNDREDS of link count error type messages. My question, where can I find some kind of log file that might give me a clue about what happened? What might have happened? Power failure, drive getting sick? This system runs all of my network management and is difficult to restore at best. DMESG wasn't any help, just told me about the boot process. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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System Failure Log Files
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Not much in this files nor in it's .0 .1 .2 and .3 instances. Since /var was my sick FS I'm wondering if the .x versions were clobbered. I'm leaning to a possible power supply problem since I've since found one other machine on the branch circuit that was at a boot prompt. May be a UPS problem in my facility.
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