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From: bruce@ai.mit.edu (Bruce Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: "rfs_read: attempt to read from non-file"
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Date: 27 Jun 91 20:22:00 GMT
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In article <3764@brchh104.bnr.ca> execu!unisql!wrat@uunet.uu.net (Louis Marco) writes:
>We have a couple of dozen Suns and a single 386 running Interactive 3.2. I
[some text deleted]
>rfs_read: attempt to read from non-file
>

I think this message is produced when the ISC machine encounters a soft link
on the nfs filesystem mounted from the sun.  ISC is sysV r3.2, can't deal with
soft links in its filesystems.

				-bruce.

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