Hi
I have tried using autofs to automate
the mounting of home directories, but it is not working as expected.
Clearly I am missing something, but I don't know what? On the
NIS server (kernel 2.0.34), wax, I have autofs
running.
# cat /proc/filesystems
...
nodev autofs
# /sbin/lsmod
Module Pages Used by
autofs 2 1
Wax's auto.master file contains other than comments:
# Sample auto.master file
/home /etc/auto.home
The auto.home file is, missing comments:
exdb -rw,hard,intr grun:/home2/exdb
In wax's nsswitch file there is:
automount: files nis
Wax's export file has:
/home grun(rw)
And I have included auto.home and auto.master in /var/yp/Makefile.
I can log in on wax as exdb and the /home/exdb exists and every
thing is fine. However, while I can log into grun (kernel 2.0.36) as exdb, exdb
home directory fails to mount -- and this is crux of my problem.
On grun:
# cat /proc/filesystems
...
nodev autofs
# /sbin/lsmod
Module Pages Used by
autofs 2 1
# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
...
automount: nis
# cat /etc/auto.master
+auto.master
/home auto.home --timeout 60
# cat /etc/auto.home
+auto.home
# cat /etc/exports
...
/home2 wax(rw)
>From the log file /var/log/syslog on grun:
Jan 17 11:44:16 grun automount[7194]: attempting to mount entry /home/exdb
Jan 17 11:44:16 grun automount[7323]: lookup(file): looking up exdb
Jan 17 11:44:16 grun automount[7323]: lookup(file): lookup for exdb failed
So it seems to fail to find exdb, but why?? Remember I can log
in as exdb on grun. exdb's passwd/shadow is handled using NIS on wax.
When I expect wax's /var/log/syslog I find:
Jan 17 19:44:54 wax automount[5095]: lookup(file): looking up edb
Jan 17 19:44:54 wax automount[5095]: lookup(file): edb -> -rw,hard,intr^I
grun:/home2/exdb
Jan 17 19:44:54 wax automount[5095]: expanded entry: -rw,hard,intr^I
grun:/home2/exdb
Jan 17 19:44:54 wax automount[5095]: parse(sun): gathered options: rw,hard,intr
Jan 17 19:44:54 wax automount[5095]: parse(sun): core of entry: grun:/home2/exdb
Jan 17 19:44:54 wax automount[5095]: mount(nfs): calling mkdir /home/exdb
Jan 17 19:44:54 wax automount[5095]: mount(nfs): calling mount -t nfs -o
rw,hard,intr grun:/home2/exdb /home/exdb
Jan 17 19:44:54 wax automount[5095]: mount(nfs): mounted grun:/home2/exdb on
/home/exdb
Any help would be greatly appreciated -- this problem is really slowing things
up. Also amd is installed but not used on the server wax, but it is not
installed on
grun, should I install amd on grun also?
Ed.
