2 Solaris 2.2 problems (share and mountd)...

[Richard Bainter]

Good Morning,

We're having two problems, one which is straight forward and the other
which is a phantom. We'll go with the phantom first:

1) We have exported filesystems that go along for several days working
just fine. Then suddently out of the blue, mountd stops serving. If
you kill it and restart it, everything works great. How does one
get information out of mountd as to why it forgot? Is there a known
fix for this that I'm missing?

2) In the olden days (all of 2 weeks ago on SunOS 4.1.3) we could use
netgroups in the exports file. We move all of our home directories
onto a bigger badder machine that is required to run Solaris 2.x
and low and behold, netgroups aren't supported in the dfstab. Well
this is a pain, but we could live with it. Yesterday we go to add
another host to one of the exported partitions and suddenly we
reach the maximum number of hosts! What to do, what to do. Does
anyone know of a way to use netgroups in the dfstab? Can a single
partition be exported more than once? (ie. do a share with the
first batch of hosts then a share with the second batch of hosts?)

Thanks for any and all assistance in the above problems.

Ciao,
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[Iain Airlie]

In article <2ea29h$p...@ns1.arlut.utexas.edu>, p...@arlut.utexas.edu (Richard Bainter) writes:
|>
|> Good Morning,
|>
|> We're having two problems, one which is straight forward and the other
|> which is a phantom. We'll go with the phantom first:
|>

[snip-snip]

|>
|> 2) In the olden days (all of 2 weeks ago on SunOS 4.1.3) we could use

[snip-snip]

|> anyone know of a way to use netgroups in the dfstab? Can a single
|> partition be exported more than once? (ie. do a share with the
|> first batch of hosts then a share with the second batch of hosts?)
|>

simple answer - yes. We have a machine with the following in /etc/dfs/dfstab

} share -F nfs -o ro=insomnia /opt/oracle7
}share -F nfs -o root=spy:inslip /opt/oracle7

one partition, two entries

Hope it works for you
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