Subject: Pine hangs up on NFS IRIX mailbox

From: Gildas PERROT <perrot@San-A>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:10:09 -0500

Hi,

I have problems to read e-mail on NFS mailbox directory with Pine 3.91
under IRIX 5.3. I got a patch from SGI to solve problems with NFS and
mail lock file but this one just solves the problem for 'Mail' reader,
not for Pine. When pine tries to read mail in an NFS mailbox, it hangs
up. I didn't have this problem under IRIX 4.0.5. However, I recompiled
Pine under 5.3 without more success.  I know that I can use IMAP from
Pine but I would prefer NFS for several reasons.

Does anyone solve this problem ?	Thanks in advance for help.

Gildas.

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From: [email-masked] (David Hinds)
Date: 15 Feb 1995 06:23:14 GMT

Gildas PERROT (perrot@San-A) wrote:

: I have problems to read e-mail on NFS mailbox directory with Pine 3.91
: under IRIX 5.3. I got a patch from SGI to solve problems with NFS and
: mail lock file but this one just solves the problem for 'Mail' reader,
: not for Pine. When pine tries to read mail in an NFS mailbox, it hangs
: up. I didn't have this problem under IRIX 4.0.5. However, I recompiled
: Pine under 5.3 without more success.  I know that I can use IMAP from
: Pine but I would prefer NFS for several reasons.

Make sure that rpc.statd is running on the client machine.  After
upgrading several of our systems from 4.0.5 to 5.3, /usr/etc/rpc.statd
was clobbered, due to an install bug.  If this file is missing, either
reinstall eoe1.sw.unix or copy it from another system running 5.3.

	-- Dave Hinds
	   [email-masked]