Correcting NFS Errors Between HP-UX and Linux

Correcting NFS Errors Between HP-UX and Linux

We had an error where dtmail, running on the HPs, could read incoming mail, but couldn't save it to a file. The problem turned out to be due to a problem saving across NFS mounted directories. The error message that appeared on edg was:

Feb 21 07:58:42 edg kernel: fh_verify: Mail/netseminars permission failure, acc=4, error=13
Feb 21 07:59:00 edg kernel: fh_verify: Mail/altera permission failure, acc=4, error=13
Feb 21 07:59:02 edg kernel: fh_verify: Mail/altera permission failure, acc=4, error=13
Feb 21 07:59:06 edg kernel: fh_verify: Mail/vali permission failure, acc=4, error=13
Feb 21 07:59:09 edg kernel: fh_verify: Mail/altera permission failure, acc=4, error=13
Feb 21 07:59:24 edg last message repeated 3 times

The solution turned out to be to reboot edg. This apparently is a common problem, in that I found it mentioned many times on the web, but without a less drastic solution. In fact, it may turn out to be that the problem will reoccur in the future. Hopefully, a fix will appear soon.