On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:36, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:23:51 -0500 > >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:57:43 -0500 >> > >> >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wednesday 01 February 2006 02:39, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> >Greetings; >> >> >> >> And no one has any comments to make on this? >> > >> >not a clue. why samba and not nfs? >> >> Because I have yet, despite quite a bit of expert handholding, ever >> been able to make NFS work for anything here. No permissions >> returns is all I can get. Also, even though the NSF starter is >> being run by the bootup, it always logs the message that NFS4-MTAB >> doesn't exist. On the bootup screen but nowhere else in the logs. >> And questions asked about that on the net have now been uniformly >> ignored on the major lists I haunt for about 4 years now. :( >> >> >FWIW, I killed fam, and >> > >> >> things seem to be working more or less normally here. Killing fam >> >> allowed me to umount those shares. This is required because I >> >> have a script (cron) that remounts some shares daily else they >> >> get stale or something and quit working, or did back when I set >> >> that script up 5 years ago because it would quit working at odd >> >> times. >> > >> >is this a bug with fam? I've had some trouble umounting nfs shares >> > on occaision for no apparent reason, though umount -l does the >> > trick. >> >> But what happens then if the share is to be immediatelty remounted, >> like my little daily insurance cron script does.? > >maybe there is a setting in fam.conf that is tying up the shares?
Maybe, I just found one that will stop it from tracking non-local stuffs if set=true, so I did. But I still haven't managed to find whats starting it at boot time, there is no output from a "grep -R fam /etc" -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
