SUMMARY: Changing automount NFS default from v2 to v3 for Tru64 5 .1b upgrade ?

From: Iain Barker (ibarker_at_aastra.com)
Date: 11/21/03

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To: "'tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov'" <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>

    The problem was strictly an automount issue, manually mounting a filesystem
    worked fine, but through the automounter the system would hang because the
    NFS mounts were timing out.

    Checking the automount daemon logs showed that the file containing the
    NIS-wide direct map table shared between Sun, Alpha etc. hosts wasn't being
    loaded properly by 5.1b

    All our maps use the syntax "auto.xxx", but the automounter was looking for
    "auto_xxx". Strange that the auto.xxx format worked OK for Tru64 5.1a but
    failed on 5.1b...

    Adding an /etc/auto_master file locally to tell the system to use the
    "auto.xxx" maps, and restarting the automount daemon has everything seems to
    be working now.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Iain Barker
    Sent: Thursday, 20 November, 2003 18:04
    To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
    Subject: Changing automount NFS default from v2 to v3 for Tru64 5.1b
    upgrade ?

    Hi managers,

    I'm trying to do an upgrade-install of a system from Tru64 5.1a to 5.1b and
    in the process I had to remove a couple of layered products that blocked the
    upgrade.

    Now I find that 5.1b is running OK, but all the NFS filesystems are
    automounting using V2 not V3.

    This is causing hangs with "NFS2 server <hostname> not responding still
    trying" for any connections across to the Suns (hosting user home
    directories etc) in our network.

    My guess is that one of the removed products replaced some NFS config file
    with a default version, and that got picked up by the upgrade script and
    used for the 5.1b install.

    Where is the default value for v2 versus v3 configuration set? This could
    be specific to automount, or to NFS I guess - neither of which I have much
    experience with I'm afraid.

    I could start over with a new install, but I'm sure this is just a config
    option I missed someplace.

    thanks!

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