From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 14:20:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14117 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 14:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14107 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 14:20:40 -0700 (PDT) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Received: from mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.87]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id XAA10970 ; Mon, 27 May 1996 23:20:32 +0200 (METDST) Received: from garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr (garfield) by mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jn930126+af960507(mailhost)) at Mon, 27 May 1996 23:20:26 +0100 Received: from (af@localhost) by garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) id XAA04006 ; Mon, 27 May 1996 23:20:22 +0100 (GMT-1) Message-Id: <199605272220.XAA04006@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: NFS Problem To: rolands@nucleus.com Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 23:20:15 +0100 (GMT-1) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <31A9FFCC.15E2@quattttro.com> from "Roland Schoettle" at May 27, 96 01:17:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I am having a problem with a new FreeBSD install. Specifically NFS does > not seem to work. > > When connecting to another UNIX host, all appears well - the mount works > running "ls -l" across the mount shows the files on the mounted system. > But when trying to "cp" a file across the NFS mount the tty doing the > "cp" appears to hang (other ttys are OK). After a few minutes the tty > comes back with the following message: > monty sendmail[8031]: timeout waiting for input from local > during message body read > monty sendmail[8078]: timeout waiting for input from local > during message body read > monty sendmail[8078]: CAA08078: SYSERR: putoutmsg (NO-HOST): error > on output channel sending "451 timeout waiting for input during > message body read": Broken pipe > monty sendmail[8078]: CAA08078: SYSERR: putoutmsg (NO-HOST): error > on output channel sending "451 timeout waiting for input during > message body read": Broken pipe > monty sendmail[8177]: timeout waiting for input from local during > initial message read > It looks much like an NFS file locking problem to me. Would you by chance mount /var/mail (/var/spool/mail or whatever it is called on the system you are copying from) through NFS from the same machine you are copying to ? My feeling is that the cp requests a file lock which hangs the remote rpc.lockd which in turn causes any incoming request to sendmail to freeze. I sometimes observe very similar behaviour when the locking daemon on my Solaris 2.x server gets confused. I usually have to reboot, deleting the contents of /var/statmon/sm[.bak] (path varies on other flavours of Unix, see man statd). As for what your exact problem is, I don't know. I just suggest that you take a close look at NFS locking on either systems (do the statd and lockd daemons run ?). Good luck, _Alain_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]