Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-15,: Re: NFS statd missing in Red Hat 6.1

# Re: NFS statd missing in Red Hat 6.1

Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:02:55 +0200

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On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:06:59AM -0700, Peter Klosky wrote:

> The source of the confusion is the misinformation presented in the
> "statd" man page. It claims statd is in /usr/sbin, when it is really
> in /sbin. Is there any way to submit a documentation bug and have this
> corrected?

That's a distribution issue: on Debian for example statd is in /usr/sbin.
So it is a bug in Red Hat and you should report it to Red Hat.

> My current plan is to write a small C program that uses file locks
> and see if that works when used on the Linux NFS partition. Our compiler
> works fine on local HP-UX partitions, but we do not have the source code
> and development system for the compiler, so it is difficult for me to
> guess just what features of the Linux NFS system it exercises.

Such software already exists. Look for the connectathon nfs test-suite.

> Again, I appreciate your help and plan to let you know how my testing goes.

You might want to ask around on the nfs development mailing list too.
Look at http://nfs.sourceforge.net/

Dominik Kubla

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