Hi Deb,
Did you ever think of :
open(FH, "< /etc/mnttab");
The only thing a df (or bdf) does is catinating the /etc/mnttab and checking if
the "link" is still there.
This way a hang of a stale nfs-mount won't bother you, but you will be able to
filter it out in the mnttab as it cleary sets an
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 06:18 , Deb wrote:
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> I can't just check for certain filesystems, I have to "know" what is
> mounted at a given time... But the fact that there is NFS server/
> client game where they no longer make nice - well, I need to discover
> that before issuing the df c
* Anders Holm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-02 10:31:29 +0100]:
> Why not see if the NFS has bombed out before trying to use it? Maybe just
> trying to do an ls or something which wouldn't need to hang your process,
> but rather give you a failure notice?
(Sorry for the long time in getting back
On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 02:08 , Deb wrote:
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> I'm not sure what approach to take to alleviate the cascading failure.
> I'd prefer to just abort the df, log the error, and complete the rest
> of the script. Short of totally re-writing the script (it's not mine,
> to begin with), I would l
> Hey Folks,
Hi.
> Recently I had a problem where a *nix system NFS was hung on a server
> which had "gone away," but the client hadn't umounted the filesystem.
Yep, normal so far
> Later, this caused a script in cron to fail, in that a df command inside
> the script never completed, and i
