Hello there!
I'm in deep troubles right now. I have a medium sized network (about 30)
of Linux-Systems (all under RH 6.2) with Kernels 2.2.14 or 2.2.16
and all are using autofs 3.1.4-4 (according to the rpm-name) right out of
the box.
I have one homeserver (with two filesystems) which is used at the same time
as the NIS server. I had it all up and running on all my clients,
but since last weeks thursday I experience on all clients the same
behaviour:
- I can ping the server
- I can rlogin/telnet to the server
- some of my clients can even mount some filesystems via samba
- I can mount the exported filesystems (NFS) by hand (!) to a named path on
the
clients.
- The "auto.home" is exported via NIS, an 'ypcat auto.home' works on the
client
(the configuration has been running for a couple of weeks now...)
- ypwhich shows the correct server name
- I can restart/reload/start/stop the automounter via the autofs-command
without any errormessage.
- I can see no error in any logfile (perhaps I've overlooked something here?)
but still, when my users try to log in, the login hangs for a long time
and then comes back with "no such file or directory /home/foobar, logging in
with
home=/"
When I try to enter the directory as root (on the client) it doesn't complain,
but an "ls" shows nothing (root_squash?). But for a user it fails completely.
"pwd" shows for root the correct pathname "/home/foobar" - At the same time
"mount" shows that the ...
**** WHAT'S GOING ON HERE ???? ****
It seems to be working again now?!
I'm totally puzzled right now!
Has anybody experienced similar problems?
The only thing I find useful to mention is that I did a "ypmake" in between...
I still have to look if it is really working again, but I still would
feel a lot better if we could pin that issue down, somehow...
I'll come back either if it's working or not, but some sort of first aid
would be appreciated. - Ahhh, and please, don't go too low (or maybe you
should?), because I'm working as a Unix systemadministrator since about
1987. So usually I do know where to look and what to do. - But maybe
I really missed something (I don't believe it because it was running
before, but I won't rule myself out).
Or please: I couldn't find (on the short run) any URL or FAQ. If there
is any, please point me to it!
Best regards,
Herbert
PS: Please help me staying up Linux in the commercial corner... (Otherwise
we would have to go to M$ or go to the more expensive brothers of Linux
(Sun, HP,...) ). I really do fight for Linux here!
--
Herbert Wengatz
