On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jonathan is right. Chastisement accepted and filed away. > > I should not have vented my frustration here. I know how things SHOULD > work, but I don't always see it in RH. Thanks for the replies. I will keep > negative opinions to myself in the future. I have been doing Solaris too > long to change over to RH very quickly.
And I've worked in Solaris environments for more than 10 years of my more than 20 years in computing. > > dorothy > > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: Jonathan Loran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I tried all sorts of things, to include autofs reload, autofs stop and > > > start, > > ypbind stop and start. > > > The only thing that would work was too reboot the machine. Rebooting a > > > SERVER > > is not > > > really something I want to do when I make changes. > > > > > > One of the guys in the office found an updated version of autofs. I > > > installed > > it, and everything > > > works like a charm. > > > > > > A commentary: I found somewhere that autofs 4 was written by someone who > > > did > > not write > > > autofs3. In fact, the author of 3 said he would like to come back to > > > write 5. > > It seems the author > > > of 4 did not know as much about autofs as he should have to write > > > properly > > functioning code. > > > > > > > > I just have to chime in here, that though Ian Kent may sometimes be self > > deprecating, it is not at all fair to say this about him. He has given > > so much of himself to the autofs project, and he, at least at this date, > > is hardly ignorant as to how autofs works. I for one feel extremely > > grateful to him for his tireless hard work on this project. Cheers to Ian! > > > > Jon > > > > > Just one of my many frustrations with Redhat and open source.... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > > > From: Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >> On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, ergatz wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >>> I have a Solaris 2.6 NIS server and have recently added some Redhat > > >>> Linux > > >>> > > >> hosts to it. > > >> > > >>> I have: > > >>> > > >>> 1 RH 7.3 machine > > >>> 2 RH 3.0 update 0 > > >>> 1 RH 3.0 update 3 > > >>> 2 RH 4.0 machines > > >>> > > >>> I have looked at this problem a lot, and the difference I see is that > > >>> 7.3 > > and > > >>> > > >> 3.0U0 use autofs 3. > > >> > > >>> The 4.0 and 3.0U3 machines use autofs 4 > > >>> > > >>> My problem is: When I moved some users' home directories to a > > >>> different > > >>> > > >> partition, the RH machines using autofs 4 had to be rebooted to pick up > > >> the > > >> changes. The solaris hosts and the 7.3 and 3.0U0 (running autofs 3) > > >> picked > > up > > >> the changed locations magically like they are supposed to. The machines > > using > > >> autofs 4 had to be rebooted in order to pick up the changes. I tried > > everything > > >> I could think of to avoid reboot, because multiple users are on the the > > system > > >> at all times. > > >> > > >>> I stopped and restarted autofs and ypbind--SEVERAL times. Nothing > > >>> worked. > > >>> > > >> Did you try "service autofs reload". > > >> > > >> or > > >> > > >> /etc/init.d/autofs reload > > >> > > >> ? > > >> > > >> > > >>> So, who know the differences between autofs 3 and 4, and what can I do > > >>> to > > >>> > > >> hosts running autofs 4 to get them to pick up the NIS changes without > > >> having > > to > > >> reboot? > > >> > > >>> dorothy > > >>> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> autofs mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs > > >> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > autofs mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
