Re: NFS-mounting /var/spool/mail

2000-01-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Dave Sherohman wrote: Adam C Powell IV said: Is there any way to set an NFS timeout so it only tries for, say, five seconds? Or anything else I can do to allow root logins to the clients when the server is down? Otherwise, I have to power cycle and wait for fsck... From man mount,

NFS-mounting /var/spool/mail

2000-01-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I have /var/spool/mail nfs mounted on my client machines, so users on the clients can use movemail to get their mail, and so mail sent to the client machines will go to the universal spool on the server. Unfortunately, when the server goes down, even root cannot log in to the clients,

Re: NFS-mounting /var/spool/mail

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
Adam C Powell IV said: Is there any way to set an NFS timeout so it only tries for, say, five seconds? Or anything else I can do to allow root logins to the clients when the server is down? Otherwise, I have to power cycle and wait for fsck... From man mount, under the heading Mount options

Re: mounting /var/spool/mail

1997-10-25 Thread Rob MacWilliams
Hello all. I've got a server and a client and I'm trying to mount the servers /var/spool/mail but nomatter what I try the mount point is empty on the client. Does anybody know why?? -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity I'm here for my American

Re: mounting /var/spool/mail

1997-10-25 Thread Jason Killen
Ok sorry for my non-well formed question. /etc/exports line looks like this (names and faces have been changed) / 242.21.5.133 (rw,root_squash,map_daemon) In this example I have exported the root directory of the server to the machine with the given ip, thats right...right. On the client I

Re: mounting /var/spool/mail

1997-10-25 Thread Cameron Lowe
At 12:14 AM 25/10/97 -0400, Jason Killen wrote: Ok sorry for my non-well formed question. /etc/exports line looks like this (names and faces have been changed) / 242.21.5.133 (rw,root_squash,map_daemon) In this example I have exported the root directory of the server to the machine with the

Re: mounting /var/spool/mail

1997-10-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Oct-97 Jason Killen wrote: Ok sorry for my non-well formed question. /etc/exports line looks like this (names and faces have been changed) / 242.21.5.133 (rw,root_squash,map_daemon) In this example I have exported the root directory of the server to the machine with the given

Re: mounting /var/spool/mail

1997-10-25 Thread Jason Killen
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Tine to shine the bright lights in the eyes and start asking nasty questions to your system: For instance, after you have done mount 242.21.5.133:/ /mntpnt, what do you get from ls /mntpnt? ls /mntpnt/var? ls /mntpnt/var/spool? There are files in

mounting /var/spool/mail

1997-10-24 Thread Jason Killen
Hello all. I've got a server and a client and I'm trying to mount the servers /var/spool/mail but nomatter what I try the mount point is empty on the client. Does anybody know why?? -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity I'm here for my American dream and I'm