cannot su - user successfully after configure NFS as its home diretory

[rayche]

I configured a NAS space as a user's home directory through NFS,but when I use "su - user" ,I must wait for a long time to get "$", I think NAS configuration is correct, because we configure it as home direcory succefully in another machine. I think maybe there is some problem with the HPUX server.
Could u help me to check ?

[Dennis Handly]

Is it doing a quota check?

Where is the users HISTFILE? Is it in the home directory? (This had locking issues over NFS.)

[rayche]

yes, there is .sh_history in the home direcory, it is the reason ?

[Dennis Handly]

It the past, there were problems with the rpc.lockd & rpc.statd running on the server, that would cause ksh hangs when logging in. If you are on 11.11, I would have thought these were long since fixed.

If you can change it to a local filesystem, would that make it work?

[rayche]

yes, it is OK when I change the user's home direcory to local file system

[Dennis Handly]

>it is OK when I change the user's home directory to local file system

Don't change the home directory, just change HISTFILE in his .profile. I.e. export HISTFILE=/tmp/.sh_history_$LOGNAME

If this fixes it, you may want to do a google search on:
site:hp.com ksh hangs on NFS
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=995732
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=7558
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=960836

The last one seems to be on 11.11.