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- From: maint@positron.uucp (Maintenance Account)
- Subject: Re: HELP: Problems integrating HP700-Cluster in SUN-Environment
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.141849.13062@mr.med.ge.com>
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- References: <BroG0z.A05@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1992Jul21.162656.159@mr.med.ge.com> <1992Jul22.230451.14563@gdwest.gd.com> <1992Jul23.083603.19127@hsr.no>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 14:18:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.083603.19127@hsr.no> bjarne@hsr.no (Bjarne Steinsbo) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul22.230451.14563@gdwest.gd.com>, good@gdwest.gd.com (David L. Good) writes:
- >> 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?
- >
- >We are currently using a Sun3/280 running SunOS 4.1.1 as a mailserver for
- >all our Suns and HPs (720s and 730s running 8.07). Initially we had
- >problems with locking-bugs, but they disappeared when we installed the
- >"100075-07" patch for Suns on the server.
- >
- >We have not had any problems with ownership/permissions, but then we only
- >let the mailserver deliver new mail to the spool area, the other machines
- >aren't even running sendmail.
- >
- >Bjarne
- > --------------------
- >Bjarne Steinsbo (bjarne@hsr.no) | There wasn't a red button, instead there
- >Rogaland University Center | was a blue button marked "Red". - D. Adams
-
- The permissions problem to which Mr. Good referred may be the irritating inability
- of HP-UX's current NFS to recognize root across NFS mounts. (Changing the
- value of "nobody" in the HP kernel does not seem to help in this particular
- situation.) The work-around for that is to set up mail delivery as Mr. Steinsbo
- describes, with only the Sun server doing the delivery.
-
- I hadn't heard about that patch. We'll have to get it and see if that
- fixes our locking problems. Thanks for the hint.
-
- Eric Bushnell
- eric@csi6.med.ge.com
-
- Spineless disclaiming: I don't even pretend to speak for anybody or anything
- whose name may have somehow wormed its way into the message header.
-