Subject: pine 3.91 NFS locking on IRIX5.2

From: [email-masked] (Chris Saldanha)
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 17:48:53 GMT

I had recently posted in comp.sys.sgi.apps about how pine 3.87 locks up 
when opening/saving to mailboxes over NFS, under IRIX 5.2

I received the suggestion from more than 1 person to upgrade pine to 3.9, 
and build using the "EXTRADRIVERS=mbox" option.

I compiled pine3.91 yesterday, using the mbox option.

The problem is exactly the same as before. Whenever mail is saved to 
another box, or I open any box except my INBOX (/usr/mail/csaldanh), 
pine locks up, apparently when trying to NFS lock that mailbox. It locks 
up, so that it can't be killed with ^C or suspended with ^Z. It must be 
killed -9. It screws up NFS so bad that I sometimes can't log back into 
the machine. It trys forever to mount my home directory. The machine 
must be rebooted.

This does not happen under IRIX 4.0.5, on the same network/account. 
4.0.5 works just fine (presumably because it is SVR3).

I am having to read mail via IMAP mailboxes to get around this. It 
means that all the users must be validated each time they start pine, 
just to read their mail. I don't want to have to do that.

Any ideas? I would prefer to get pine running via NFS again.

--Chris
Chris Saldanha                         |  "Can I tell you what makes love
Carleton University (Comp. Sci)        |   so frigtening?
[email-masked]  (NeXT/MIME)  |   Its that you don't own it.
[email-masked] (NeXTMail)  |   It owns you."

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 20:21:59 -0800 (PST)

> just to read their mail. I don't want to have to do that.

Chris,
Why not use rsh preauthentication with your IMAP server?  Then you can 
avoid the locking hassles of NFS and also avoid a separate login.

-teg