> Hi, > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:07, janezkosmr <janezkosmr at volja.net> wrote: >> I encountered an interesting problem. We have a Java application on a >> samba server. The folder is then shared to the clients via a samba <snip> >> When a developer copies a new jar to the folder which is shared via >> samba. And if this copying is done by scp strange things start >> happening. After a few clicks the application stops working returning >> NoClassDeffFound, even if the file is there and readable. After that it <snip> > I believe the problem is that you are rewriting the file on the server > (with "scp") while it is open on the clients (using NFS? or mounted > CIFS?). As the clients have the file open they will have parts of it > cached, and those parts will be updated on the server but the cache > will persist on the client for sometimes quite a long time, or until > you unmount the network filesystem, which it seems is what you are > currently doing to fix the issue. > > I would suggest that you change the procedure to update the .jar file. <snip> You're on linux. I'd agree with changing the procedure, but to scp <filename.datetimestamp> ln -s <filename.datetimestamp> <filename> mark