From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 14 11:30:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA05916 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 11:30:19 -0800 Received: from ubiq.veda.is (root@ubiq.veda.is [193.4.230.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA05893 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 11:30:11 -0800 Received: (from adam@localhost) by ubiq.veda.is (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA13034; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 19:29:29 GMT Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 19:29:29 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199511141929.TAA13034@ubiq.veda.is> To: rkw@dataplex.NET (Richard Wackerbarth) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questionable decision Newsgroups: list.freebsd.stable References: X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >In order to save space, etc., the termcap in /etc was replaced by a >symbolic link to /usr/share ... >Since /usr/share is a prime candidate for nfs, I mounted it from another machine >If the mount goes as expected, everything is great. >But what if eel is down? >Now login doesn't want to let me in because it cannot recognize by terminal :-( >I have copied termcap from shared storage to /etc. IMHO, since login >requires the file, it is a REQUIRED configuration file. Therefore it should >be in the required configuration area, /etc. Have you tried mounting /usr/share/misc/termcap on top of a minimal /etc/termcap file using options soft,union ? This would do what you expect, if union mounting applies also to regular files and if soft,union implies that the underlying filesystem is accessed if the union-mounted layer fails due to a hanging server. This requires specifying the -r flag to mountd on the server machine. If it doesn't work, why not? and why shouldn't it work? -- Adam David