Andrew Robert wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We have several NFS mounts that are in use. > > Occasionally, the NFS mounts seem to go out to lunch. > > The mounts appear active but are no longer functional. > > Is there a Python module specific to NFS that I might use to > periodically check its status? > > I imagine I could make a script to attempt a write on the share and > clean up after itself but I am hoping for a more elegant solution. > > Any insight anyone can provide on this would be greatly appreciated.
If the share is mounted on the test machine, seems to me a simple os.path.isdir(<path to NFS root>) might do the trick. Otherwise, a quick Google turns up http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/pynfs/ HTH Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor