From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 4 16:37:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA02210 for current-outgoing; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 16:37:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ice.fit.qut.edu.au (tony@ice.fit.qut.edu.au [131.181.2.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA02205; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 16:37:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tony@localhost) by ice.fit.qut.edu.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA17183; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:38:02 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:37:59 +1000 (EST) From: Tony Jago Reply-To: Tony Jago To: Doug Rabson cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS Diskless Dispare - More details In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: T.Jago@fit.qut.edu.au Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Exactly which files have permission problems? Try creating a file (as > root) on those filesystems and make sure that the new file is owned by > root and not nobody. > > If I could see some kind of log of the system booting, I might be able to > see more of what is happening. Is that possible? > When the system has booted correctly everything works just fine. If you create a file in / as root it is owned by root and root can change things like /etc/printcap etc etc. When the machine boots, if there are problems then typically when fails is "[" (ie. test) in the /etc/rc scripts. Alternatly, the system sometimes fails after it has mounted the new root file system (rw) under /mnt and then does a chroot. Sometimes the chroot binary is not available and the system fails to boot and the user is dumped into a root shell. Another point I forgot to mention that may have a bearing on things is that as additional hosts are added to the active client list, a line is added to /etc/exports and then kill -1 is sent to mountd on the server. This could be happening quite often if alot of clients are booting at once. I don't know if this could be a problem. --- Tony Jago, System Administrator, E-Mail: T.Jago@fit.qut.edu.au Faculty of Information Technology, Web: http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/staff/~tony Queensland University of Technology. Box 2434, Brisbane 4001, AUSTRALIA. "We need more horsepower!" Phone: +61 7 3864-2573 Fax: +61 7 3864-1959