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by **MWT** » Sat, 24 Mar 2001 04:05:02

Hello All,

I've got a line in my .cshrc like so:
setenv PATH $PATH:/nfsarea

nfsarea is a directory that is nfs mounted from another server.
Whenever that server goes down I can't log in. It always
hangs on the setenv PATH line. Is there a way around this?

TIA,
Mark

by **Bill Marcu** » Sat, 24 Mar 2001 05:06:02

>Hello All,

>I've got a line in my .cshrc like so:
> setenv PATH $PATH:/nfsarea

>nfsarea is a directory that is nfs mounted from another server.
>Whenever that server goes down I can't log in. It always
>hangs on the setenv PATH line. Is there a way around this?

if (ping nfsserver) then
setenv PATH $PATH:/nfsarea
else echo "NFS server is down"
endif

by **MWT** » Sat, 24 Mar 2001 05:30:00

True, but this seems like an awkward way of doing it.
Is there a way to do just a BLIND setenv? So it just sets
the PATH and doesn't check to see if it can stat the
directory.

TIA
Mark

> >Hello All,

> >I've got a line in my .cshrc like so:
> > setenv PATH $PATH:/nfsarea

> >nfsarea is a directory that is nfs mounted from another server.
> >Whenever that server goes down I can't log in. It always
> >hangs on the setenv PATH line. Is there a way around this?

> if (ping nfsserver) then
> setenv PATH $PATH:/nfsarea
> else echo "NFS server is down"
> endif

by **MWT** » Sat, 24 Mar 2001 08:15:04

Yep, tried doing an 'unhash' before the setenv but still didn't work.
Any other ideas?

> > Is there a way to do just a BLIND setenv? So it just sets
> > the PATH and doesn't check to see if it can stat the
> > directory.

> The shell is most likely updating its hash tables. If you turn hashing
> off (builtin command unhash) it might work. But then you have to
> be very careful as you will hang again the first time you try to
> execute a program that is located in a directory placed after the
> NFS directory in the path, or a program that is not found. :-)

> --
> G?ran Larsson Senior Systems Analyst hoh AT approve DOT se

by **Bill Marcu** » Mon, 26 Mar 2001 05:05:02

>Yep, tried doing an 'unhash' before the setenv but still didn't work.
>Any other ideas?

setenv some other variable, and then later you could setenv PATH = that
variable ?

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setenv PATH hangs when nfs server down

setenv PATH hangs when nfs server down

setenv PATH hangs when nfs server down

setenv PATH hangs when nfs server down

setenv PATH hangs when nfs server down

setenv PATH hangs when nfs server down