fsck on startup

[Sergey S. Ropchan]

Hello
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure what is causing this, but virtually -every- unclean system shutdown
> results in my server asking for the root password to run fsck manually, and this
> is a co-located server in a remote datacenter which I unfortunately can not get
> to as easily as I would want.
> 
> Is there anyway to tell rc.conf or sysctl or anything else to get bsd to not 
> pause for the root password???  
Yes, of course add folowing strings to your rc.conf:

fsck_y_enable="YES"
background_fsck="YES"


> Don't ask me why, but this has happened twice 
> already now in one week that the system would for some reason just do a cold
> restart, and then sit at the startup waiting for the passwords.... 
> 
> This is 5.4-STABLE on a P4 3.4GHz 1GB Ram.  
> 
> --
> Chris.
> 
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