HP-UX 11.0 messages at boot time

[Greg Porter_2]

Whenever one of our 11.00 machines boots, we get syslog messages like:

vmunix: NOTICE: nfs3_link(): File system was registered at index 3.

vmunix: NOTICE: autofs_link(): File system was registered at index 5.

We do not use nfs or nis.

It sure would be nice to stop (fix?) these messages. This is an issue because we use automatic log reading software, and everytime one of these pops up, it sets the alarm bells off.

Thanks,

Greg

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Greg:

I suspect that your are stuck with these messages and will have to add a filter (or rule) to your logging software to rid yourself of it there.

From document #A5291643 (for 10.20 but which will also apply to 11.x):

These messages are merely the system logging the fact that NFS3, AutoFS, and CacheFS filesystems have been assigned their relative
index numbers for this boot. HP-UX 10.20 uses dynamically assigned file system numbers rather than static numbers. Each filesystem
now registers itself with the system and gets an index number assigned at boot time. So in the above case, NFS3 was assigned position 4 in
the index, but during the next boot it could be assigned position 5. If an application developer needs to know what type of file is being referenced for some reason, the developer would have to programatically
determine this by calling stat(), statfs(), statvfs(), etc and then post-process the returned st_fstype or f_sid using sysfs() with
GETFSTYP opcode.

You should also be able to find similar information in the NFS subsystem section of /usr/share/doc/11.00RelNotes.

...JRF...

[Greg Porter_2]

Thanks, James. You always respond quickly with a cogent answer.

I was hoping that I wouldn't have to filter. Oh well.

Greg

[Wodisch]

Hello Greg,

if you disable the NFS driver subsystems you should
not get those messages any more!

HTH,
Wodisch