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>>>>> Benny Amorsen writes:

>>>>> "PA" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
PA> Someone else mentioned NFS as a possible source of the problem.
PA> He was using Linux.  I'm also using NFS between two Solaris 2.5
PA> hosts.  How about you?

BA> I am probably the one you refer to. Actually I read linux-kernel
BA> on a sparc-sun-solaris2.4 box... The NFS server is a
BA> mips-sgi-irix5.2 machine.

	Irix 5.2 is evil.  Irix NFS is evil.  Put them together, you
almost approach the depths of Win95. (; I had NFS-related problems in
procmail using irix-to-irix mounts.  If you have any option at all,
put the nnml directories on the Solaris box.

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