My department is using an 8-year-old RS/6000 workstation running AIX 4.3
to post web-related files. The building where the workstation is
housed has had a few sudden power outages, but the OS has recovered
after applying fschk to corrupted filesystems.

After the blackout in NYC, I inspected the machine and was able to start
the http daemon. However, after rebooting the system twice, the OS
could not initiate many of the subsystems, in particular inetd. Because
my colleagues update their web-related files by way of ftp, I need to
get this problem corrected. Moreover, I am unable to remote login to
the system.

The error message that I get when I try to start the subsystem using
smitty is as follows:
"0513-130 The inetd subsystem could not be started. The System
Resource Controller could not create an internal file in /var/adm/SRC.
Please check the /var filesystem and the /var/adm/SRC directory and try
again."

My main question is "If the /var filesystem is corrupted, I know that I
need to get into maintenance (service) mode, but the workstation is so
old that it has a key that can set the machine into 'service' mode. Is
this key setting sufficient to get into the correct mode?"

If the filesystem isn't corrupted, what might be the problem?

Thank you very much.

Sherman Wong
Sherman_Wong@baruch.cuny.edu