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From: sandel@tuvalu.SW.MCC.COM (Charles Sandel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: NFS/RPC services on Pyramid
Message-ID: <409@tuvalu.SW.MCC.COM>
Date: 25 Mar 88 14:47:25 GMT
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
Lines: 21
Keywords: NFS RPC lockd statd Sun Pyramid


Our network environment is such that we use a Pyramid 98x
as a "fileserver" for about 68 Sun workstations (Sun-3/{50,140,160,260,280}).
The Pyramid provides its news partition (along with other partitions)
as an NFS filesystem to all of the Suns.  We have noted the
lack of rpc.statd and rpc.lockd on the Pyramid to provide locking
services on NFS filesystems.  Has anyone else bemoaned this
omission?  I have questioned the Pyramid Sales person about this.
He says there are no plans to provide statd or lockd.
I feel this is a grave omission, given that Pyramid is shipping
NFS, supports RPC and also OEM's Sun workstations.
If you have a Pyramid and are running NFS, I would like to urge
you to bring this to Pyramid's attention.

Charles Sandel

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Charles Sandel
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  All I want is to be free from desire.