Look at the soft and intr mount options.  See man mount and man nfs.

rna

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Alexander Henry wrote:

> remote box is a Red Hat 7.3 server I'm using to test web pages.
> terminal is a Debian testing box.
> 
> I opened an nfs share on the rh box to myself so I could conveniently cd 
> in rather than ftp in.  (everything is local and secure).  The kicker 
> is:  anything I do locks the process on my local machine, and the 
> process is not killable.  
> 
> mount www.remote.com:/var/www dev
> cp dev/html/index.html .
> 
> hung.  Can not shut down my machine.  Must hard-reset.
> 
> I'm hoping it's my machine's fault, this is a good excuse to try 
> upgrading the kernel (I just threw the box up with Debian defaults). 
>  Any suggestions?
> 
> --Alexander
> 
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