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From: ted@vball.sgi.com (Ted Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: shared custom icons
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.233002.24916@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 23:30:02 GMT
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In <1991Feb27.183926.26742@odin.corp.sgi.com> msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes:

>In article <9102262001.AA10384@scripps.edu>, jwk@SCRIPPS.EDU (John Kupec) writes:
>|> 
>|> 3 NFS'ed irises- no NIS or automount. User icons in B:/usr/local/lib/faces.
>|> Irises A & C use icons from B via soft link to faces directory on B 
>|> (B:/usr mounted on A & C).
>|> 
>|> This setup works fine UNLESS machine B is down.  Then, trying to login
>|> on console sends pandora(?) into an infinite loop on A & C when trying 
>|> to access the unavailable custom icons.  It seems logical enough to only 
>|> want one set of icons- how to accomplish?
>|> 

Do you have the faces directory hard-mounted?  If so, nfs will wait forever
for the machine to respond.
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