Frank,

  Why are you having to reboot the system; system halt, hang, etc. ?
Samba/iX itself has not caused me to reboot the system (that I
can think of).  There have been a few problems posted to the
list about Posix operations causing system aborts, but they don't
seem to be overly numerous in comparison with non-Posix
related issues.  Especially given the pervasive changes to the
OS that were needed to get Posix compliant in the first place.

Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
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From:  Frank Letts[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:  Wednesday, September 03, 1997 2:00 PM
To:  [log in to unmask]
Subject:  [HP3000-L] interesting discovery re posix/samba, etc

Well, after spending more time re-booting the 3000 the last 3 months
than I had in the previous 25 years :(, I've come to a startling
conclusion.  Now that we have POSIX on the machine, we have to treat
it like any other toycomputer and reboot it at least once a day.

Has any one else come to this conclusion?  In my 31+ years of experience
with -hp- computers, I have previously only rebooted in case of direct
lightning strikes, errant fork lifts, and secretarys that spilled their
coffee in the cpu/disc drives.  I don't recall ever a general malady
that required something as drastic a rebooting.  Could it be that one of
these new commers to the 3K have imported the dreaded memory leak
syndrome?  Comments?

frank 'too old for this $#!+' letts