Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: is this the way it's supposed to work? Message-ID: <8043@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 29 Sep 89 18:16:12 GMT Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 27 Ultrix 3.1: VAX 785 I just ran into a problem today that almost seems to make sense. I booted the system into multi-user mode and then unmounted a couple of filesystems that are exported to a host of micros. After successful completion of some risky activities I remounted the filesystems. Ever since, the micro's are unable to mount the exported filesystems and the manual is void of instructions for what to do. If it were a sun, I'd maybe run /etc/exportfs to "re-export" the files, however for some reason DEC doesn't have /etc/exportfs. To make a long story short, I touched /etc/exports and after a decent interval, the other systems were finally able to mount the exported filesystems. It seem like either mount should be prodding nfs in some way or there should be a documented user action ala exportfs to handle this sort of situation. Anybody else seen the same problem, or am I confused? -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)