Re: [SLUG] Maintenance tool

[Matthew Hannigan <mlh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:50:18AM +1100, Chris Rennie wrote:
> Hi,
> In the olden days I used Norton Utilities to check and exercise
> the various HW components of PCs.  It was a great sanity check
> when confronted with a machine reportedly "does funny things,
> sometimes".  So is there anything similar for Linux?  fsck is
> the only maintenance tool I know.
> Chris

Off the top of my head I can recall memtest86 and a 
repeated kernel compile being good tests of hardware.
So I did a google search and got this which give you
more info:

	http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-hw1/

It would be nice for someone to put a whole bunch
of these tools on a bootable cdrom to just automate it.


Matt