Guys
Our data centre provider had a cascade failure on its UPS which ultimately
caused a power blip to our servers. Now all of them came back up without
any external help except the BlueQuartz.
When I got to it at the console it was showing starting dbrecover - the only
real references I could find on Google seemed to relate to Sun/RaQ so I'm
presuming that this is specific to the RaQ and sure enough when I got in to
look at the script it is a Sun/Cobalt script.
Following a post suggesting it had taken 14 hours for some poor person I got
in as single user
ctrl X then Linux single
once logged in I had a look around and it looked fine - a drive check
corrected a few errors. I then turned dbrecover off
chkconfig dbrecover off
so that I could reboot and see what would happen.
The server cam back fine no errors and started doing its job of receiving
mail - hooray no more customers screaming at me.
Now - I obviously want things to settle down for a day or so but I'm also
conscious that I have disabled something.
Question - what does dbrecover actually do/ how important is it and can I
run it overnight without impacting the server too much so that I can turn it
back on again.
Regards
Gavin