[cobalt-users] NFS artifacts in /tmp

[Lorell Hathcock <lorell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings!

A few months ago I tried to turn on automated backups via NFS on my Cobalt 
RaQ4.  While I was never successful, every day it would attempt to set up 
an NFS link and the backup would fail.  As root, I would get the error 
notification via email.  I eventually turned it off.

I have noticed lately that there are a number of files in my /tmp directory 
that are NFS related.  When I try to ls that directory it hangs the 
shell.  If any process runs a df, it hangs the shell and the process does 
not complete.  I have to go in and manually kill the process.  What's more 
is that I cannot delete these files in /tmp.  I have not yet tried to 
reboot the box.

So, here are my questions:

1.  Will rebooting the box clear up my problems?
2.  What methods are open to me that would not require me to reboot the box.
3.  How do I get the NFS backup to work?

Thanks!

Lorell Hathcock
lorell@xxxxxxxxxxxx