Re: tlug: Strange NFS behavior

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:

> 
> Here is a strange one. On a Solaris 2.5.1 machine with an automounted
> file system from the my RH 5.0 box, I can't resolve symbolic links. On
> the Solaris box, it looks like the link do not point to anything:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 andy     users         13 Mar  3 22:14 alloca-conf.h@
> 
> But on the linux box, which is the NFS server, its fine
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 andy     users          13 Mar  3 22:14 alloca-conf.h
> -> alloca-norm.h
> 
> In the middle of writting this, I manually unmounted the volume. When
> it remounted, my link was resolved. Hmmmm 
> 
> Any ideas what might be happening?
> 

Update your automounter package on the Solaris machine, perhaps?  The amd
package that's currently being used on Linux systems seems to work...
probably compiles straight across on a Solaris box.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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