by > Hello,
> I have ( Red Hat 5.2 ) linux (intel ) system working as NFS server
> and I have solaris 2.7 ( intel ) working as
> NFS (client) till now everything was working fine suddenly while
> compiling I started getting following error messages
> CC -c -g0 -noex -compat=4 -I../../
> ......
> .....
> .....
> -xF -PIC xxx.C
> Write failure on xxx.o : Is a directory
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xxx.o'
> I hace checked target xxx.o does not exist at all, I am getting this
> problem on NFS mounted file system
> if I copy entire directory on local file system and do compilation I do
> not get above compilation errors.
> Also after this if I try to copy a file using following command
> cp xyz.C xxx.o
> cp: xxx.o: Is a directory
> and I cannot copy , I have checked that xxx.o does not exist, but after
> few hours I can copy using above command
reported. Have a look with snoop to see what error messages the server
is reporting.
I push my clients hard to avoid Linux NFS serving Solaris clients (it works
much better the other way round!).
Ian