HELP /var is read only

[casit]

I have an esx 3.0.1 server and my /var says that its read only even when I'm logged in as root. I would like to not reboot the server if at all possible. Any ideas?

[jjohnston1127]

You can type

Go to the root folder

cd /

Then type

chmod 755 var

That will fix it.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

If the permission change doesn't work it may be that you have a corrupt partition and it has been mounted an read only. You can check the status of it in /etc/fstab and then run fsck on it.

[christianZ]

IF /var is a file system then maybe first this:

"cd /"

"ls -la"

and check the rights for /var - should be "drwxr-xr-x"

then

"mount"

and check if /var (rw) or (ro)

[casit]

Well I attempted to do the chmod 755 var but it gave the read only file system error. I then did

IF /var is a file system then maybe first this:

"cd /"

"ls -la"

and check the rights for /var - should be "drwxr-xr-x"

then

"mount"

and check if /var (rw) or (ro)

And the rights were good and the /var was rw

[christianZ]

Have you checked this:

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=82939&tstart=0