Subject: pine hangs accessing Solaris automounts

From: Paul A Beltrani <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 10:43:16 -1000

Software details:
Pine 3.96 on Solaris 2.5.1

Problem details:
Our user home directories are, for the most part, stored on a
central machine and automounted to /home/~ as necessary.

When pine attempts to access a mailbox file in a user's HOME
directory, eg. reading ~/mail/sent-mail or writing
~/dead.letter, it hangs indefinitely with a slow spinning baton prompt.

This ONLY happens when the user's home directory is AUTOMOUNTED
from ANOTHER server.  This does not happen on manual/vfstab NFS
mounted directories or on directories automounted from another
location on the SAME server.

A search of the Pine Discussion Forum Archives shows that
others have posted similar problems.  However, I haven't found
any responses that contained a solution.

Does anyone have a solution or suggestion regarding this
problem.

  - Paul Beltrani
    Oceanic Imaging Consultants