> I haven't been following this thread closely but awhile ago I > brought this > issue up. > > I'm in a heterogeneous environment: AIX, HPUX, Linux, Solaris. > > With autofs3 on RedHat 7.1 users' home directories were > automounted but I > couldn't get /net to work. > > So, I switched to autofs4 and then /net worked but users' > home directories > aren't automounted. > > I find I have to "./autofs restart" to automount users' home > directories. > > If anyone has run into this and found out why I'd appreciate > a reply. I can > live with the solution I have now but it's kinda like a > splinter in my mind. > > Maybe the start script in rc3.d is occurring too soon? It's S18...
Are you getting the map from NIS? I mentioned some improvements a while ago on this list that need to go into the autofs4 rpm, and this was one of them. It needs to start after NIS is running. This is what I did: Delete the autofs entry from chkconfig: chkconfig --del autofs Edit /etc/init.d/autofs and change the line: #chkconfig 345 18 18 to #chkconfig 345 61 18 Then reinsert it: chkconfig --add autofs This should change the start order of autofs. I sent in this suggestion, but I haven't heard back from anyone. I would write a patch for it, but I am not very good at writing patches yet. Oh well. Forrest > > (I also find that I can't /net to HPUX boxes, but AIX, other > Linux boxes > and Solaris boxes are fine). > > Cheers > > Jason > > At 10:19 AM 10/25/2001 -0700, Ogden, Aaron A. wrote: > > >That was our original reasoning for using v4, we wanted to > get /net working > >the way it does in Solaris. Do you know of any how-tos to > get that working, > >we tried to set that up but we were unsuccessful. Maybe the > problem is that > >we needed to have autofs v4 userspace tools to make that happen. > > > >Thanks for the advice, I will talk to the rest of my team > and decide on a > >course of action to fix this. > >Any idea when autofs v4 will go gold? :-) > > > >--aaron > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: H. Peter Anvin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:14 PM > > > To: Ogden, Aaron A. > > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Schulte, Rick; > Waybright, Robert C. > > > Subject: Re: autofs interoperability problems > between linux and > > > solaris > > > > > > Ogden, Aaron A. wrote: > > > > > > > Hmmmmm... I have to agree with you, the combination we > are using seems > > > > broken to me. :-) > > > > So which do you think is most likely to work properly, > autofs v3 or v4? > > > I > > > > looked around at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs and the > > > latest version I could find was autofs-4.0.0pre10. Is that stable > > enough to > > > use, or do you think it would be better to stick with autofs v3 for now? > > I > > > can go either way. > > > > > > > > > autofs v3 has been beaten on for a very, very, very long time and is > > likely to be the most stable configuration. autofs v4 seems mostly > > stable; use it if you have a need or desire for the v4 additional > > features, such as /net mounts. > > > > -hpa > >
