From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 1 18:36:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA05797 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 18:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA05767 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 18:36:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (localhost.rwwa.com [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA02691; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 21:35:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199707020135.VAA02691@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Chuck Robey cc: Robert Withrow , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS V3 is it stable? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:47:30 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 21:35:56 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk chuckr@glue.umd.edu said: :- I don't know what to say to you. Must have been working by a freak :- timing accident. Well, I always said I'd rather be lucky than good. Still, there are many hundreds of unix workstations at this site, runing Solaris, SunOs, Hpux, Aix, Linux, Sco, and FreeBSD, all mounting /var/mail (or whatever) via NFS, and, presumably, getting mail correctly (Since people don't often complain about missing mail, and when they do it turns out to be something identifyable), so I guess we are *very* lucky... ;-) For example from FreeBSD: bash$ ls -l /var/mail lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Feb 4 16:33 /var/mail -> /mail/bldg2 bash$ ls -l /mail/bldg2 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Jul 1 21:24 /mail/bldg2 -> /a/pobox/mail bash$ mount | grep pobox pobox:/mail on /a/pobox/mail (nosuid) bash$ telnet pobox Trying ... Connected to ... UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0 (pobox) And From SunOs: bash$ ls -l /var/spool/mail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 11 Apr 2 17:31 /var/spool/mail -> /mail/bldg2 bash$ ls -l /mail/bldg2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 25 Jul 1 21:27 /mail/bldg2 -> /tmp_mnt/mail/bldg2 bash$ mount | grep bldg2 pobox:/mail on /tmp_mnt/mail/bldg2 type nfs (rw,soft,intr) And on solaris: bash$ ls -l /var/mail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Oct 24 1996 /var/mail -> /mail/bldg2 bash$ /etc/mount | grep bldg2 /mail/bldg2 on pobox:/mail read/write/soft/intr/remote on Tue Jul 1 21:33:41 1997 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 592 8935, Net: witr@rwwa.COM