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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP-UX 6.5 NFS problem on cnodes. (A help question -- 2 pages)
Summary: NFS and csh login directories
Message-ID: <567@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 89 22:41:39 GMT
References: <9773@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <7540029@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> <8840@venera.isi.edu>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <8840@venera.isi.edu>, raveling@venera.isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes:
> 	We have no problem starting csh when all hosts are alive
> 	that we have NFS mounts on, but have experienced inability
> 	to start csh when any of those hosts has gone down.  (Further
> 	qualifications follow.)  This happens if ANY of those hosts
> 	goes down -- it's not necessary to have an file open on the
> 	defunct host.  The situation cures itself when the dead host
> 	revives.

Are your NFS file systems mounted "soft"?  If they are not, NFS will
sit around and wait for the desired system to answer the file request
forever.  An example checklist entry (for a paranoid admin with a 
hanging ethernet) would be:

mmlai:/users    /mmlai/users nfs soft,timeo=100 0 0 # NFS mount to MMLAI

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Tony Burzio               * All right, so where's rfbackup anyway???
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