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