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From: harish@ece-csc.UUCP (Harish Hiriyannaiah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: NFS question.
Keywords: Server down, C-shell path.
Message-ID: <4016@ece-csc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 14:08:08 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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I have had a strange NFS problem. My machine (client B) has directory /dir
remote mounted from another m/c (Server A).  Now, there is a bin directory
in /dir. If I put /dir/bin in my path I notice a problem. If A is down, and
I try to login, the login shell remains hung, presumably waiting for A to
come up so that it can set up its internal hash table. One very kludgy
solution is to have symbolic links to all the bin files in a non-remote
directory, which of course, is not the right solution. Is there a solution 
to this ? I have to state that /dir is a hard nfs mount.

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