After posting several messages to hedwig-list and autofs and got no answers, I went and got the source to autofs, greped for the openlog() system call and figured out how to modify the /etc/syslog.conf file to seperate the gazillion automout messages I get every minute since I have --timeout set to 60. In anycase, the following is a section of my /etc/syslog.conf file which I think does the trick. Someone who is more knowledgabel about syslog.conf format can verify my syntax, but I think its correct. One problem is that one cannot just filter out the automout message but you have to filter out all the messages for every daemon who runs on the system who writes to syslog. I don't know if syslogd has the facility of just parcing out automout messages. One may be able to do so with a named pipe. But thats beyond me right now.... cheers. steve. # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. # Don't log private authentication messages! *.info;mail.none;news.none;authpriv.none;daemon.!info /var/log/messages # Added this line to catch the daemon messages daemon.* /var/log/daemon.log
