Re: NFS-mounting /var/spool/mail

2000-01-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Dave Sherohman wrote: Adam C Powell IV said: Is there any way to set an NFS timeout so it only tries for, say, five seconds? Or anything else I can do to allow root logins to the clients when the server is down? Otherwise, I have to power cycle and wait for fsck... From man mount,

NFS-mounting /var/spool/mail

2000-01-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I have /var/spool/mail nfs mounted on my client machines, so users on the clients can use movemail to get their mail, and so mail sent to the client machines will go to the universal spool on the server. Unfortunately, when the server goes down, even root cannot log in to the clients,

Re: NFS-mounting /var/spool/mail

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
Adam C Powell IV said: Is there any way to set an NFS timeout so it only tries for, say, five seconds? Or anything else I can do to allow root logins to the clients when the server is down? Otherwise, I have to power cycle and wait for fsck... From man mount, under the heading Mount options