Softlink disappears

[Rakesh Jha_1]

We have ES80 and GS140 running Tru64 V5.1B-3 (patch kit 5) both nodes are single node cluster. ES80 exports a file system to GS140.
I have made a softlink on GS140 to this NFS share. Some time this softlink file goes missing and I have to recreate the link with NFS share.

Why does this happen?
Will changing the NFS protocol from UDP to TCP make any change?

Rakesh

[Steven Schweda]

> I have made a softlink on GS140 to this NFS
> share.

What, exactly, did you do, and where?

> Some time this softlink file goes missing

What does this mean?

Actual commands? Actual output?

[Rakesh Jha_1]

ON ES80 - Export file system /abc/test to GS140.
On GS140 -
mount -t nfs es80clu:/abc/test/test1 /test1
cd /abc/test
ln -s /test1 file1
ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user grp 10 Aug 18 07:11 file1 -> /test1

The softlink file file1 disappears from /abc/test on GS140. How it can happen?

[Dennis Handly]

>How it can happen?

Someone or some script would have to remove it.
Does the directory /abc/test have much activity? If not, then the modification date of test could be the time it was removed.

[Ann Majeske]

You can use the Audit subsystem to track down what is happening. See the documentation on the Audit subsystem in the Security Administration manual.

Ann

[Rakesh Jha_1]

As the softlink was disappearing 2-3 times a week plus when netwok was busy users were not seeing the link intermittently. So what I have done I made local directory and copy files from the NFS folder and softlink points to this new local folder.

I do not have any issue since then.