6.1 and NFS

[Robert Joosten]

Hi,

> >I observed running a pxe client running fbsd 5.[45] being served by  
> >nfs-box running 5 (and 4
> >nowadays because of asr0 trouble due to geom) having disabled  
> >rpc.lockd
> >the box doens't let me run adduser, but with rpc.lockd enabled it's  
> >fine
> >with 'em. Is that strange or am I missing (some) insight about this  
> >matter?
> That's interesting.  Are you getting a "could not lock the passwd  
> file: EOPNOTSUPP" failure with rpc.lockd not enabled?

I never witnissed any message. After I press enter (adduser) nothing 
appears on the screen at all. But it has been a long time ago and I'm
currently unable to experiment. I hope tomorrow I will. I assume 
it's a good idea to run a debug kernel ?

I also recall there were some occaisions I once run adduser that went ok, 
but the second (and more) times in a row it just locked. These cases were 
never reproducable, however I had the idea something called some rpc.lockd 
procedure before. In all these cases, the box ran the standard sendmail 
enabled. Maybe in these occasions the box did a 'lock' before, and all 
subsequent flock() calls stall. Something like that. I'm not sure but at 
that time I presume I ran a 6.0-rel pxe client served by a 5.3-rel nfs 
server; I really forget though and didn't take any notes either.

Regards,
Robert