Re: Weird happenings with shlight

["Jim Rosenberg" <jr_ml@rossint.net>]

On 1 Jun 2001, at 6:47, Stephen Ware wrote:

> The directory '/mnt/tunes' is still there, however, any process
> that attempts to touch this directory hangs, and I have to log out
> and reconnect to continue. 

I just started using shlight recently, and ran into something very 
similar.  I left a share mounted via shlight, and found my logins 
hanging.  Apparently a df in my .login was hanging on the shlight 
mount point.  Most uncomfortable!!

There is something decidedly not healthy in shlight.  In the case 
above I did decide to take the drastic option of rebooting.  [Insert 
Microsoft sarcasm here ...]

This is really annoying.  The tar built in to smbclient won't do 
compression (or multi-reel), AFAIK, and I was just at the point of 
being glad to find a solution that would let me do multi-volume pax 
with compression on SMB shares.

The README stuff in the shlight distribution is *not* encouraging 
about their own confidence in the code, alas. "The source code of 
Sharity-Light is a mess."  (This is *not* my flame, this is a direct 
quote from their own README!)

Sigh.

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