1. How to limit /etc/daily,weekly,monthly so they do not cross nfs mount points? One of my development systems crashes occasionally when left running a long job after hours. It reboots itself, but nfs connections to it are not restored. What I don't notice is that /etc/daily now hangs on a public-facing machine. Gradually the humber of processes increases day by day until I have numerous find, tee, sendmail and sh proceses all stuck.
I can kill some of the /etc/daily related processes, but not the instances of find. In the past I have been able to resolve the problem by remounting the remote filesystems using mount_nfs, or restarting a crashed rpcbind, but not this time. BTW, these processes all have a PPID of 1. 2. Attempts to do anything involving mountd, mount or df results in a hung process that kill -9 will not remove. I need to find a way of restoring normality that is sure-fire, and based on an understanding of nfs clien-side behaviour. I can, of course, reboot, but this is a customer-facing server in a remote data centre, which otherwise is functioning properly. This is 9.2 on amd64, but I don't belkieve for a moment that this is version-related. -- Steve Blinkhorn <st...@prd.co.uk>
