dla@chemsh.uucp (Doug Acker) (06/12/91)
I'm another person who found that NFS 2.2 bombs on a 425s ... Has anyone found a fix or has HP/Apollo Acknowledged the problem? -- Douglas L. Acker ChemShare Corporation DesignMaster Division dla@chemsh.UUCP 713-267-5602
dla@chemsh.uucp (Doug Acker) (06/13/91)
In article <1991Jun11.233532.1920@chemsh.uucp>, dla@chemsh.uucp (Doug Acker) writes: |> I'm another person who found that NFS 2.2 bombs on a 425s ... |> |> Has anyone found a fix or has HP/Apollo Acknowledged the problem? |> Talking to Apollo, this problem is with csh ... if you run csh scripts over a mount point, it gets hosed and dies. They are working on a patch. Also with NFS2.3, it will support automounting .... -- Douglas L. Acker ChemShare Corporation DesignMaster Division dla@chemsh.UUCP 713-267-5602
dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente) (06/14/91)
In article <1991Jun12.175533.2004@chemsh.uucp> dla@chemsh.uucp (Doug Acker) writes: >In article <1991Jun11.233532.1920@chemsh.uucp>, dla@chemsh.uucp (Doug Acker) writes: >|> I'm another person who found that NFS 2.2 bombs on a 425s ... >|> Has anyone found a fix or has HP/Apollo Acknowledged the problem? > >Talking to Apollo, this problem is with csh ... if you run csh scripts over >a mount point, it gets hosed and dies. They are working on a patch. Also >with NFS2.3, it will support automounting .... Does this mean that if I avoid csh scripts, then NFS2.2 should be usable? (I don't mean good - just *usable* ;-/) - I was just getting excited about the prospect of a usable version of NFS when all these horror stories started appearing... might I actually dare to use NFS2.2? Colin -- Colin Dente | JANET: dente@uk.ac.man.ee.els Manchester Computing Centre | ARPA: dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk University of Manchester, UK | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!manchester!dente ... I am the one you warned me of ...
christos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christos S. Zoulas) (06/15/91)
In article <2694@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente) writes: > >Does this mean that if I avoid csh scripts, then NFS2.2 should be >usable? (I don't mean good - just *usable* ;-/) - I was just getting >excited about the prospect of a usable version of NFS when all these >horror stories started appearing... might I actually dare to use >NFS2.2? I think that the root of the problem is vfork() and it manifests itself when using csh. If you can avoid using vfork().... christos -- Christos Zoulas | 389 Theory Center, Electrical Engineering, christos@ee.cornell.edu | Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853. christos@crnlee.bitnet | Phone: (607) 255 0302, Fax: (607) 255 9072
dla@chemsh.uucp (Doug Acker) (06/18/91)
In article <2694@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>, dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente) writes: |> In article <1991Jun12.175533.2004@chemsh.uucp> dla@chemsh.uucp (Doug Acker) writes: |> >In article <1991Jun11.233532.1920@chemsh.uucp>, dla@chemsh.uucp (Doug Acker) writes: |> >|> I'm another person who found that NFS 2.2 bombs on a 425s ... |> >|> Has anyone found a fix or has HP/Apollo Acknowledged the problem? |> > |> >Talking to Apollo, this problem is with csh ... if you run csh scripts over |> >a mount point, it gets hosed and dies. They are working on a patch. Also |> >with NFS2.3, it will support automounting .... |> |> Does this mean that if I avoid csh scripts, then NFS2.2 should be |> usable? (I don't mean good - just *usable* ;-/) - I was just getting |> excited about the prospect of a usable version of NFS when all these |> horror stories started appearing... might I actually dare to use |> NFS2.2? |> |> Colin |> I think that would be a correct statement. -- Douglas L. Acker ChemShare Corporation DesignMaster Division dla@chemsh.UUCP 713-267-5602