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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Strange MOTD
- Message-ID: <15508@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:56:52 GMT
- References: <joerg.721484101@iiasa> <15454@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <7906@charon.cwi.nl>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- Nntp-Posting-Host: bootme.auspex.com
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- >>It means that some piece of SunOS has stuck stuff from "/etc/mtab" at
- >>the end of "/etc/motd". I've seen both Suns and Auspexes, running
- >>various flavors of SunOS, do that. Dunno why, at this point....
- >
- >It seems that NFS has a small but nonzero probability
- >for confusing buffers.
-
- Yes, some versions of the SunOS NFS client code will do that on
- occasion...
-
- ...however, Auspexes can't run diskless:
-
- 1) their network interfaces live on a board with a 68020 or
- 68EC030 on it, and a PROM sufficient only to download real
- software, and the host processor has to download the board
- before it can talk at all on the network;
-
- 2) the number of cases where one would want to have a file
- server boot over NFS seems fairly small in any case :-);
-
- so the NFS client code can't be blamed for the problem as seen on
- Auspexes.
-