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Mel Martinez (mem@jhu.edu) wrote:
: In article <3v8vmj$j3u@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:

: ] mem@pha.jhu.edu (Mel Martinez) wrote:
: ] ] 
: ] ] The myth that unix is somehow immune to crashes is worse than believing in
: ] ] the easter bunny.
: ] 
: ] Lucky, then, that I am trying to sell neither.  8-).
: ] 
: ] ] If so, why is it that we have had our mail services crash
: ] ] repeatedly in recent weeks?
: ] 
: ] Bad administration?  One of the jobs of the administrator is to
: ] update system software so this doesn't happen.
: ] 

: Nada.  Our sys admin is a very highly respected (nationally) unix expert. 
: Point of fact, the system software was specifically updated last saturday
: night - hopefully to prevent recurrence of previous similar problems.  No
: good, apparently.

pardon me if I have problems believing that someone who doesn't read the 
release notes and can't keep a Solaris 2.4 system running without 
crashing is a "very highly respected (nationally) unix expert."

: ] ] Why did one of our other workstations today TOTALLY LOCK UP to
: ] ] the point where it would not even process a shutdown command?
: ] ] The only solution was to power the sytem down and up!
: ] 
: ] You were running using an NFS image of a program as swap store
: ] in a diskless or dataless environment because you are too cheap
: ] to buy disk hardware?
: ]

: Nope.  This 'station is neither diskless nor dataless.  It has all it's os
: & X code local.  It does mount NFS volumes from other servers and run some
: startup processes off them.  I don't see how that explains any of the
: behavior, though.
:  

well, if its running something critical off those NFS volumes, along with 
its configuration files etc, I could see the potential for it locking up

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