My problem:>
> >
> >Our main file server / NIS+ server for some reason will not allow me to
> >do an ls -F or an ls -l on the root directory.
> >
> >I have tried this both by logging into the machine console and by
> >rloging in.
> >
>
> Ok... Upon further inspection, i determined that it was the /vol
> directory that is corrupt (or something.)
>
> I did a:
>
> $for i in `ls`
> >do
> >ls -ld $i
> >done
>
> and it stopped running on the /vol directory. When I try to change
> directories into that /vol directory, It locks.
Thanks to Francis Liu I found out that the volume manager daemon had
died and somehow messed up the access to the /vol directory.
Last night I started the vold daemon with the rc2 script, and this
morning, when I got in, it was back to normal.
Gary Franczyk.