Re: [techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > You were right on that the automount process' stat was D... once I > removed that process from the startup and it was no longer running, my > disks mounted fine. So, it turned out to be exactly the same problem. So much for my "mount can't possibly care about the netw

Re: [techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread Kristin Ziel
Jeff-- You were right on that the automount process' stat was D... once I removed that process from the startup and it was no longer running, my disks mounted fine. I need to learn to read more carefully. Kristin > > ah...see when I read that, I didn't think automounter problem...I thot DN

Re: [techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread Kristin Ziel
Jeff-- I don't want this to come across as argumentative, so please do not take it that way.. I would never have thought that DNS had anything to do with mount either... this is the page that I came across and got that information . Perhaps the guy that wrote this wasn't clear on what

Re: [techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread Kristin Ziel
ah...see when I read that, I didn't think automounter problem...I thot DNS problem ..I will take a look when I get my hands on the box tonight. I will let you know. Kristin > Oh, the automounter was getting in the way on that one. That's something I > don't know much about. > > So

Re: [techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > (see the "Found the Culprit!" section) http://www.linuxcentral.com/ > linux/lg/issue43/tag/4.html Oh, the automounter was getting in the way on that one. That's something I don't know much about. So, do you have an amd in state 'D'? If so, disabling it or fixing mig

[techtalk] iptables and MSN zone

2001-02-07 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
I posted a thought like this on debian-user and I didn't get any response. It seems the migration to 2.4 is slower than we wanted it to be ;o) I configured a friend's box to do NAT/firewalling with 2.4 and the script iptables-firewall from firewall.nerdherd.net. It worked great after my interface

Re: [techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > i've traced the command using strace, and found that it hangs right > on the the mount() system call. If the mount syscall is hanging, then DNS can't have anything to do with it (I don't think even in the case of NFS, because the kernel doesn't know about resolv.co

[techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread K. Ziel
Hi all-- i'm currently working on a caldera box, and trying to get a partition to mount. the partition is actually on a RAID,but i was able to fdisk and create the filesystem on the RAID, as well as to duplicate the mount problem with a different partition on a non-raid drive...so i don't th