jwk@SCRIPPS.EDU (John Kupec) (02/27/91)
Been playing around with customizing login icons. Ran into a glitch- is there a way around this: 3 NFS'ed irises- no NIS or automount. User icons in B:/usr/local/lib/faces. Irises A & C use icons from B via soft link to faces directory on B (B:/usr mounted on A & C). This setup works fine UNLESS machine B is down. Then, trying to login on console sends pandora(?) into an infinite loop on A & C when trying to access the unavailable custom icons. It seems logical enough to only want one set of icons- how to accomplish? john
msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) (02/28/91)
In article <9102262001.AA10384@scripps.edu>, jwk@SCRIPPS.EDU (John Kupec) writes: |> |> 3 NFS'ed irises- no NIS or automount. User icons in B:/usr/local/lib/faces. |> Irises A & C use icons from B via soft link to faces directory on B |> (B:/usr mounted on A & C). |> |> This setup works fine UNLESS machine B is down. Then, trying to login |> on console sends pandora(?) into an infinite loop on A & C when trying |> to access the unavailable custom icons. It seems logical enough to only |> want one set of icons- how to accomplish? |> That's what we do here at SGI. A large proportion of the systems on our internal network nfs mount a /usr/local/lib/faces directory from one system. Most people mount this system somewhere under /n and use a symbolic link from /usr/lib/faces. For example I have the faceserver:/ mounted at /n/faceserver. Then I have a symbolic link from /n/faceserver/usr/local/lib/faces to /usr/lib/faces. When the face server is down (which is rarely) Pandora shows its default sketch of a user. I have never experienced the problem you describe. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "Spirits of genius are always opposed by mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein
ted@vball.sgi.com (Ted Wilcox) (03/01/91)
In <1991Feb27.183926.26742@odin.corp.sgi.com> msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes: >In article <9102262001.AA10384@scripps.edu>, jwk@SCRIPPS.EDU (John Kupec) writes: >|> >|> 3 NFS'ed irises- no NIS or automount. User icons in B:/usr/local/lib/faces. >|> Irises A & C use icons from B via soft link to faces directory on B >|> (B:/usr mounted on A & C). >|> >|> This setup works fine UNLESS machine B is down. Then, trying to login >|> on console sends pandora(?) into an infinite loop on A & C when trying >|> to access the unavailable custom icons. It seems logical enough to only >|> want one set of icons- how to accomplish? >|> Do you have the faces directory hard-mounted? If so, nfs will wait forever for the machine to respond. ====================================================================== Ted. | "America is only as good as your ted@sgi.com | next-door neighbor." -Celtic Elvis