Personal System Folders and NFS

[Michael Temkin]

(The original posting has been lost to the mists of 'expire'...)

The problem was long login times when the home directory was nfs
mounted.  I have (as of 12+ hours ago) placed the following at
the top of my .cshrc (local to the A/UX disk):

test -f .home
if ( $status == 0 ) then
        set home=`cat .home`
        cd $home
endif

This is the .cshrc that is in my passwd entry.  The .home file contains
a full path to my nfs mounted home directory (/usr/users/stf/mst).  I have
not tested it out fully (been Chanukkah shopping) yet, but I still login
in the same amount of time as when my home dir was local (and yes, I do
know how long nfs logins are :-) ).  I have checked and my $home is correct,
my $HOME is correct, ~ expansion is correct...

If anyone has some test for me to try, let me know.  BTW, the .login that
gets executed after the .cshrc is in my /usr/users/stf/mst dir, so if any
of you try it, make sure you transfer any A/UX code to the new .login.

Mike.
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Mike Temkin
mst at csun.edu
Cal. State U. Northridge, School of Engineering and Computer Science
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