Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!infbs!tubsibr!petri
From: petri (Stefan Petri)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: login hangs when server dies
Summary: gotcha
Message-ID: <1989Oct7.221805.25754@tubsibr.uucp>
Date: 7 Oct 89 22:18:05 GMT
References: <1989Sep28.195215.4656@tubsibr.uucp> <366@twg-ap.UUCP>
Sender: petri@tubsibr.uucp (Stefan Petri)
Reply-To: petri@tubsibr.UUCP (Stefan Petri)
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik, Bueltenweg, W. Germany
Lines: 24

In article <1989Sep28.195215.4656@tubsibr.uucp>, I wrote :
[..]
> Problem: when a nfs-servers dies, the `login' on all of his
> clients will hang somewhere after displaying /etc/motd
[..]

Ok, I got the solution to my problem :
( mailed to me by guido%rwthinf%unido@infbs (Guido Bunsen) )

It's NOT a $PATH referencing the nfs-directories.
It's NOT some /etc/dfspace or the like.
It's NOT getwd() stat()-ing around in a directory containing a mountpoint.

It IS the mount option "noquota", that is not documented for nfs-filesystems
in my manuals - but turns out to be essential for me.

Thanks to all those thinking about my problem

S.P.
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Stefan Petri					<petri@tubsibr.UUCP>
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Institut fuer Betriebssysteme und
Rechnerverbund, 3300 Braunschweig, W. Germany.