Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-17 Thread Ron Stodden
Barry Rountree wrote: There are many, many, many other ways of accomplishing the same thing. But not, apparently, the conventional Edit | Find menu entry in the man page browser that everyone would expect! -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use sunet.se server.

Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-17 Thread Barry Rountree
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 11:49 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: Barry Rountree wrote: There are many, many, many other ways of accomplishing the same thing. But not, apparently, the conventional Edit | Find menu entry in the man page browser that everyone would expect! Everyone? Ummm... no.

Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-17 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Stodden wrote: But not, apparently, the conventional Edit | Find menu entry in the man page browser that everyone would expect! While I'm uncertain whether the man command came before any implementations of Edit==Find on a gui, it certainly

RE: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-17 Thread Jane Gray-Luhr
[mailto:lnordin;safebrowse.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ronald J. Hall Subject: Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles) On Wednesday 16 October 2002 09:20 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hi there. For a really great web site all about NFS go

Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-16 Thread Ron Stodden
Todd Lyons wrote: Can you try changing it to soft mounts instead of hard mounts? Also, have you tried changing the read and write block chunk size? man mount makes no mention of any 'hard' or 'soft' mount options, so what is it whereof you speak, please? -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]

Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 02:33 am, you wrote: Todd Lyons wrote: Can you try changing it to soft mounts instead of hard mounts? Also, have you tried changing the read and write block chunk size? Hope you don't mind me butting in here Todd! :-) man mount makes no mention of any 'hard'

Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-16 Thread Todd Lyons
Ron Stodden wrote on Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:33:02PM +1000 : Todd Lyons wrote: Can you try changing it to soft mounts instead of hard mounts? Also, have you tried changing the read and write block chunk size? man mount makes no mention of any 'hard' or 'soft' mount options, so what is

Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-16 Thread Ron Stodden
Todd Lyons wrote: From my man page: Also the following Boolean options, possibly preceded by no are recognized: bg, fg, soft, hard, intr, posix, cto, ac, tcp, udp, lock. For details, see nfs(5). Especially useful options include rsize=8192,wsize=8192 This will make your nfs

Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-16 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:19:54 +1000 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some kind of find capabilty on man pages would have helped... Did you try /stringreturn...? Same as find in less... i.e., /hard takes me right to hard ( soft) stuff HTH, Pierre Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-16 Thread Lars Nordin
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 09:20 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hi there. For a really great web site all about NFS go to: http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/ Actually a better site on all things Linux NFS go to: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ This is where the most up to date Linux NFS

Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-16 Thread Ron Stodden
Pierre Fortin wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:19:54 +1000 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some kind of find capabilty on man pages would have helped... Did you try /stringreturn...? Same as find in less... No, but that is nice to know, thanks but users (me) would normally expect an

Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-16 Thread Barry Rountree
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 09:47 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:19:54 +1000 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you try /stringreturn...? Same as find in less... No, but that is nice to know, thanks but users (me) would normally expect an Edit | Find

[expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-15 Thread Jane Gray-Luhr
Anyone know of a patch for NFS hanging on MD 8.2? We have to reboot our server every few days cause the mount umount commands just sit there restarting nfsd doesn't seem to free up the stale mounts. Also, is there a patch directory for 8.2 on the Mandrake Web site? I am new to Mandrake, my

Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-15 Thread Todd Lyons
Jane Gray-Luhr wrote on Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:31:36PM -0700 : Anyone know of a patch for NFS hanging on MD 8.2? We have to reboot our server every few days cause the mount umount commands just sit there restarting nfsd doesn't seem to free up the stale mounts. Can you try changing it to