Re: mail and 'quit' problem

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From: W. W. Looi
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 15:59

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In article <8634@awdprime.UUCP> marc@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com writes:
>In article <RCAU8QVN@linac.fnal.gov>, looi@sutro.SFSU.EDU writes:
>
>> We have three hosts running NFS, NIS and nameserver, and let's assume
>> host A being the master server. I exported /usr/spool/mail from
>> host A and had hosts B and C mounted over using NFS. With this setup,
>> I was hoping that users could read mail irregardless of where the users
>> are logged on, but the mail sessions froze on hosts B and C soon as
>> the users type "quit" (& quit) at the mail prompt. Does anyone know
>> what might have caused the problem?
>
>
>This is a known problem and is currently being worked on.
>For reference the APAR is IX18805.
>
>Could you please describe what you are using for the server and
>the client?  I would like to see if this occurrence matches the
>one in the APAR.  I need the level that the systems are running 
>on.  If some of them are not RS/6000's the version of NFS that 
>they are running will help.
>
>Marc Wiz 				MaBell (512)823-4780
>

Marc, the following is wh we have it set up in our site:

masterserver: 530
clients: 230H
networktype: Token Ring

Thanks.

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