little%odin@ucsd.edu (Glenn Little) (05/17/89)
We are having a strange problem here with some of our users' NFS served home directories. The problem is that every few hours or so, a couple users' .rhosts files become unreadable. So far, it's always been the same two users. The symptoms of unreadability: % more .rhosts % % cat .rhosts cat: read error: Permission denied % % file .rhosts .rhosts: ascii text % % ls -l .rhosts -rw------- 1 joe_user 561 Mar 29 12:11 .rhosts % % od -c .rhosts 0000000 % % touch .rhosts % cat .rhosts cat: read error: Permission denied % ##### ...and the cure... ###### % touch xyzzy (where xyzzy is a previously non-existent file) % cat .rhosts another_client joe_user The symptoms and cure happen on a client by client basis... that is if the problem is fixed on one client, it may still appear on another until it is fixed there as well. And the cure usually only lasts for a few hours. The two users are both in a common netgroup, but other users in that netgroup do not have this problem. The server is a sun 3/280 The clients are sun 3/50s Does anyone have any ideas about this? Thanks for any help. Glenn Little little%cs@ucsd.edu