Johannes Nix writes:
 >  > > 
 >  > > > >
 >  > > > > Have to mention that there is a NIS map which refers to a direct mount
 >  > > > > for some SUN clients.
 >  > > > autofs does not support direct mounts. Check out Alvin�s autofs HOWTO
 >  > It should just ignore it.

If you want to cleanly treat direct-mount, you can merely add in
starting shell-script (/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs) a "grep -v '^/-\>'" to
delete the line

 >  Besides, we still have the problem that NFS mounts using autofs stop
 >  to work sometimes. That means that something like /vol/unix above
 >  disappears after some time (after a week), or not shows up directly
 >  after booting. But the entry in the mount tables seems to stay, this
 >  means if I shut down autofs, "mount" still tells me that /vol/unix is
 >  mounted. It looks like "autofs" died. I can only fix this by a reboot.

When you say "dispear", you mean that "cd /vol/unix" fail ? Then is
there a autofs message in /var/log/messages ?

All the same, your pb concerns /vol and have normally no link with /-

-- Julien

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