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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