Re: Sfs on Solaris 8 problems

> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:53:52 +0100 (CET)
> From: Wout Mertens <wmertens@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This is the message describing the problem and fix:
> 
> http://diswww.mit.edu/snafu.fooworld.org/sfs/912
> 
> I removed the xputenv invocations from core.C and now sfscd and sfssd both
> work.

Yes, I think I fixed this problem.  The latest version of SFS in the
CVS repository has its own implementation of putenv.  I have
successfully run it on SunOS.  Can you give it a shot if you have a
machine with autoconf/automake/etc.   (I don't know if it will solve
the other problem, but it's worth trying first.)

> And another question: can you use nfs from another server instead of
> localhost? That way, I could build an sfs server in a trusted lan next to
> our nfs servers without running the chance of overloading our nfs
> server...

Yes.  If you put NFS mounted directories in Export directories of
sfsrwsd_config, the SFS server will do the right thing (i.e., figure
out what the remote NFS server is and talk directly to it).

The one annoyance we have yet to address is that if the NFS server is
down when you start sfssd, it won't work.

David