On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 06:00:04PM +0100, Steffan Baron wrote: > > > >On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 03:28:59PM +0100, Steffan Baron wrote: > >> But perhaps this is a caching problem: In the meantime the symlink created > >> earlier is accessible, newly created links do not, except I ssh to a > >> machine > >> which hasn't mounted my HOME already ..... > > > >So this is across NFS? Is anything in syslog for either machine? > > Yes, I'm using NFS, and no, there nothing unusual in the logs.
Standard behaviour for NFS. Wait a minute and it will update. Checking the file every second doesn't help, because in this way the NFS client won't remove the information from its cache. Yes, NFS is a broken protocol, why do you ask? ;-) Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
