[753] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: lock on from Request for form
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Mon Oct 17 22:35:58 1994
To: jd albert <jalbert@MIT.EDU>, iapreq@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Oct 1994 13:05:13 EDT."
<9410171705.AA02064@numb.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 22:35:41 -0400
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
> We run a cluster in our house of Linux boxes. The major problem with
> them is that they seem to lock up on 'from' sometimes. It sits there in
> disk wait, and all we can do is reboot...
Are you running the afs-nfs translator or afs? The 'from' command
checks to see if the file
/afs/athena.mit.edu/system/config/from/message exists. If it does
exist, from will print the file and exit (this was provided as a
safeguard in cases where the pop servers are excessively hosed and had
to be used once last year). Anyways, this may be hanging the access
to the translator and causing the process to go into disk wait.
Either use Linux AFS or stop using the translators (there are other
solutions, but these are probably your best bets).
--- Erik