Naive problem with dataless client
rlee at digigw.lab.nanko.digital.co.jp
rlee at digigw.lab.nanko.digital.co.jp
Thu Jul 26 19:13:46 AEST 1990
I'm sure the solution to the following problem is *really* simple, but for
the life of me, I just can't find it!
Configuration: SunOS 4.0.3.
Sun 4/370 -> exporting home directories and binaries for diskless clients
SS1 -> dataless client. (has root and swap on internal drives)
4/370 /etc/exports:
/home
/export/exec/sun4c -ro
/export/exec/kvm/sun4c -ro
SS1 /etc/fstab:
/dev/sd0a / 4.2 rw,nosuid 1 1
/dev/sd0e /var 4.2 rw 1 4
370host:/export/exec/sun4c /usr nfs rw,bg 0 0
370host:/home /home nfs rw,bg 0 0
Problem: The commands, w, vmstat, and ps (!) do not work on the dataless
client, but do so on the 4/370. "w" and "ps aux" simply return silently
while vmstat comes back with the message "vmstat: Disk init info not in
namelist".
As the only common thread between the above commands seems to be
/dev/kmem, I checked the permissions and they are identical on both
machines:
crw-r----- 1 root 3, 1 Jun 11 20:28 /dev/kmem
When the SS1 was set up as a standalone machine, everything works as it
should. So, it would appear to be related to the dataless configuration.
I know that the problem was recently created because these commands used
to work. Please tell us the solution and we promise not to break our
machines again ;-).
Thanks kindly,
Robert Lee Internet: rlee at digital.co.jp
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