Eric B.
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:18:52 -0800
"Ian Kent" <ra...@themaw.net> wrote in message news:4b18c1d7.7020...@themaw.net... > Eric B. wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm using Autofs and LDAP for mounting my home directories via nfs. >> In general, everything seems to work fine. However, I have one small >> problem. >> >> If I reboot my server using autofs while my LDAP server is down, I >> get the following error message in my logs: automount[3358]: >> bind_ldap_anonymous: lookup(ldap): Unable to bind to the LDAP server: >> (default), error Can't contact LDAP server >> >> which is understandable, since my ldap server is temporarily down. >> >> My problem, however, is that once my ldap server is back up, autofs >> never seems to retry to connect to it, so all my /home mounts fail. >> Basically, it means I have to make sure that my LDAP server is never >> down while another server is rebooting. >> >> I figure there must be something in the configuration file that would >> allow me to tweak this to indicate to autofs to recheck the ldap >> server periodically to see if it has come back up, but can't seem to >> find anything. > > Yeah, there are problems in that area. > > What does your nsswitch.conf have for the "automount:" entry? > Is your master map also located on the LDAP server? > Does sending a HUP signal to automount make things work again when the > server is back?
nsswitch.conf:
automount: files ldap
Restarting autofs will make things work again. Similarly, issuing a HUP
signal will make things work again once the server is back online.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Eric
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