Thanks, that is what we were thinking was happening. Smartd will not start at boot,&nbsp; it parses the config file just fine and then fails. <br><br>Thanks for all your help!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Alfred von Campe</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:alfred@110.net">alfred@110.net</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Dec 1, 2006, at 16:07, Joshua Gimer wrote:<br><br>&gt; This is an issue that I have been having with one of our production<br>&gt; servers for a couple of months, just out of no where /var goes to<br>&gt; read only.<br>
<br>Maybe the disk is going bad.&nbsp;&nbsp;I had the same (or similar) thing<br>happen to me with the root partition, which in my case also contains<br>the /var partition.&nbsp;&nbsp;It turned out to be a disk going bad.&nbsp;&nbsp;Check the<br>archives of this mailing list for a thread titled &quot;EXT3-fs error
<br>(devive dm-0) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted&quot; earlier this<br>year.&nbsp;&nbsp;Run smarctl on the drive with the /var partition if it<br>supports it.<br><br>Alfred<br><br>_______________________________________________
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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thx<br>Joshua Gimer