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- From: good@gdwest.gd.com (David L. Good)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: HELP: Problems integrating HP700-Cluster in SUN-Environment
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.230451.14563@gdwest.gd.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 23:04:51 GMT
- References: <BroG0z.A05@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1992Jul21.162656.159@mr.med.ge.com>
- Organization: General Dynamics Corp.
- Lines: 44
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- In article <1992Jul21.162656.159@mr.med.ge.com> eric@csi6.med.ge.com writes:
- >In article <BroG0z.A05@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> mohr@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Bernd Mohr) writes:
- >>hallo,
- >>we received a HP9000s700 cluster running HP-UX 8.07. The rest of
- >>our computers are mainly Sun Sparcs. We have some trouble integrating
- >>the HP cluster in our Sun environment:
- >>
- >>2) we want the same mail box in our whole environment, so we mounted
- >> the mail spool directory from our Sun server. Problem: you cannot
- >> use "mail" or "mailx" to read your mail on the HP clients
- >> (message: mail: can not lock on /usr/mail/<user> after ten tries)
- >> The same command on the HP Server works perfectly.
- >>
- >>Thanks,
- >>Bernd Mohr
- >
- >We ran into this devilish little problem recently. It appears
- >to be an NFS file locking problem (bug? who said bug?!?!).
- >It's been reported to HP, and was being investigated. I'm no
- >longer involved with this particular problem, so I don't have
- >reference numbers handy, I'm afraid.
- >
- >Anyway, report it to your HP service people, and if they drag their feet,
- >insist that they check it out with the US Response Center.
- >
- >For grins, try elm. It sometimes works when the others won't.
- >
- >Eric Bushnell
- >eric@csi6.med.ge.com
- >
- >--- Not speakin' fer nobody. ---
-
- We also tried to set up a central mail server for our HPs and Suns. We had
- some problems (the details of which I don't recall), and came to the
- conclusion that the Suns and HPs expect different ownerships and permissions
- on mail files, and that that was causing the difficulty. We have since
- set up two mail servers, one Sun and one HP. Is this evaluation correct,
- or is the problem just the aforementioned NFS bug? Has anyone managed to get
- a Sun to work as a mail server for HPs or vice versa?
-
- --
- David Good good@gdwest.gd.com
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