SUMMARY: Wierd Directory Entry

From: Jesse Whyte (jwhyte@mail.state.tn.us)
Date: Tue May 18 1999 - 15:11:01 CDT


Thanks alot for the quick responses. All of the responses are included
below. My solution was of the Microsoft variety: After a reboot, the size
of the xfn directory was 512 bytes and the find perused the directory
cleanly. Thanks for all of your help!

Jesse Whyte

Sanjaya Srivastava:
You should change the xfn entry in /etc/auto_master to point to null or
comment
it out.
e.g.
SOL1
/xfn -null
SOL 2
# /xfn -xfn

Robert Loftin:
That is an automounter directory for the Sun Federated Naming system. If
you're not using FNS you can disable this by commenting it out in
/etc/auto_master or your NIS auto.master map.

Trevor Paquette:
/xfn is probably an nfs mount point that is hung..
try running find with -xdev..
find / -xdev -options....
this will prevent find from crossing mount points.

Adam Hammer:
I believe that the default automount maps have an entry for this. If
you don't use it, and it is causing problems, you may want to remove
it from /etc/auto_master.

There's further information about the xfn mount-point in the automount
man page.

wartman@cccis.com:
I've had this problem before and the bottom line is that an "auto mount"
point is failing. Most likely, if you run a 'df' command, it will hang as
well.

Need to find what the mount point is.

Johnny Hall:
It's a default automount in the /etc/auto_master. Probably safe to
remove it.

Jesse Whyte
Information Security
OIR/Telecommunications
State of Tennessee



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