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Date:      Tue, 01 Jul 1997 21:35:56 -0400
From:      Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS V3 is it stable? 
Message-ID:  <199707020135.VAA02691@spooky.rwwa.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:47:30 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970630224657.7038e-100000@Journey2.mat.net> 

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chuckr@glue.umd.edu said:
:- I don't know what to say to you.  Must have been working by a freak
:- timing accident. 

Well, I always said I'd rather be lucky than good.  Still, there
are many hundreds of unix workstations at this site, runing Solaris,
SunOs, Hpux, Aix, Linux, Sco, and FreeBSD, all mounting /var/mail
(or whatever) via NFS, and, presumably, getting mail correctly 
(Since people don't often complain about missing mail, and when they 
do it turns out to be something identifyable), so I guess we are
*very* lucky...  ;-)

For example from FreeBSD:
bash$ ls -l /var/mail
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  11 Feb  4 16:33 /var/mail -> /mail/bldg2
bash$ ls -l /mail/bldg2
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  13 Jul  1 21:24 /mail/bldg2 -> /a/pobox/mail
bash$ mount | grep pobox
pobox:/mail on /a/pobox/mail (nosuid)
bash$ telnet pobox
Trying ...
Connected to ...

UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0 (pobox)

And From SunOs:

bash$ ls -l /var/spool/mail
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           11 Apr  2 17:31 /var/spool/mail -> /mail/bldg2
bash$ ls -l /mail/bldg2
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           25 Jul  1 21:27 /mail/bldg2 -> /tmp_mnt/mail/bldg2
bash$ mount | grep bldg2
pobox:/mail on /tmp_mnt/mail/bldg2 type nfs (rw,soft,intr)

And on solaris:

bash$ ls -l /var/mail
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         11 Oct 24  1996 /var/mail -> /mail/bldg2
bash$ /etc/mount | grep bldg2
/mail/bldg2 on pobox:/mail read/write/soft/intr/remote on Tue Jul  1 21:33:41 1997


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