Hello being a long term user of the GNU Linux system, I fell this is a viable place to write my observation, in the hope that you, the receiver, will redirect it to the correct maintainer of the right package.
The problem is the usage of df diskfree and its timeouts. df works nicely on a single pc. But when it comes to nfs access, some problems arise related to discontinued nfs mounts. If user A creates an nfs mount on a nfs client and if she forgets to umount before turning of the nfs server, then user B on the nfs client using the df utility will find that it hangs forever. This might be a bug or feature of df or of one of its subprocesses. (mount ?) What is more than a nuisance: When having noted the error it is not possible to kill the process of df, not with crtl-C in the shell nor with a killall nor kill -9 pid_of_df. Also killing or closing the shell as a parent process does not take away the hanging df process. I have experienced that only init S or init 1 does effectively terminate the processes of df, by closing the net services and killing off all processes but the single user login shell. This is not a solution in a working environment with only nonroot users. my df is rpm -q -f /bin/df fileutils-4.1-51 and it came with SuSE 7.3 This might have been fixed already, then I will be happy to learn this. If this is an old but "new to You" bug, then please take the apropriate action. Thanks in advance for the action and for enableing us to use GNU/Linux Software. GNUesse mit freundlichen Gruessen Erich Minderlein ---------------------------------- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.locoware.de www.locoware.de/Tools.html Date: 26-Feb-03 Time: 15:15:00 This message was sent by XFMail an ascii mailing ware _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
