Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:37:59 +1000 (EST) From: Tony Jago <tony@fit.qut.edu.au> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS Diskless Dispare - More details Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.92.960805091557.3463D-100000@ice.fit.qut.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960802103748.21604I-100000@minnow.render.com>
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> 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
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