From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs-utils - Silencing mountd
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:00:26 -0400
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Greg Banks wrote:

>Actually, I find the "authenticated mount request from..."  message
>useful in tracking down strange but nonfatal bugs on busy servers with
>many mounts from many clients.  Not all NFS or RPC error messages
>tell you which client was involved, so correlating those messages
>with mount messages can help narrow the list.
>  
>
True... the authenticated message is a good way to see that
a client is able to communicate with the server... but
in reality it doesn't mean much... and every error message
in the same code path (i.e. in  auth_authenticate()) gives a pretty
detail error message of who and what happen..


SteveD.


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