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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:01:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
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Subject: Re: NFS question
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Joe McGuckin wrote:

> 
> I mount news from my FreeBSD news server onto my Sun workstation.
> The news spool is mounted as (bg,soft).
> 
> If the news machine is not up, incoming telnets onto the Sun take 10
> minutes to complete. I can only assume it is some sort of nfs mount timeout.
> 
> How can I fix this?

Remove any references to the FreeBSD server from  your startup scripts.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major