Hi, Don't know if this is your problem or not, but your system maybe loading some modules depending on how the kernel was built. We noticed the loading kernel protocol version 3 before we added the "alias autofs autofs4" into the modules.con. This is on a RedHat72 system. After adding that, the messages we see all show "using kernel protocol version 4.0.0". Since adding the modules entry, we haven't had any problems mounting file systems so far. We are very early in the testing phase, however. Wayne
-----Original Message----- From: Hauke Busch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 3:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Program Map Hi, for quite some time I have been trying to get the automounter working with a program map, i.e. a shell script that returns the available mounts of the remote host as mount points on the local machine. I tried the script that comes with the autofs package, but the following happens (excerpts from the /var/log/messages): Nov 29 12:00:58 myhost automount[8760]: starting automounter version 4.0.0, path= /net, maptype = program, mapname = /etc/auto.net Nov 29 12:00:58 myhost automount[8760]: using kernel protocol version 3 Nov 29 12:00:58 myhost automount[8760]: using timeout 300 seconds; freq 75 secs Nov 29 12:01:06 myhost automount[8760]: attempting to mount entry /net/remotehost Nov 29 12:01:06 myhost automount[8766]: mount(bind): mkdir_path /net/remotehost/export/dk1 failed: Operation not permitted ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The remotehost exports the partition /export/dk1 The /etc/auto.master on myhost looks like: /net /etc/auto.net And /etc/auto.net on myhost looks like: ---snip------ #!/bin/sh # $Id: //depot/autofs-4.0/samples/auto.net#6 $ # Look at what a host is exporting to determine what we can mount. # This is very simple, but it appears to work surprisingly well key="$1" # add "nosymlink" here if you want to suppress symlinking local filesystems # add "nonstrict" to make it OK for some filesystems to not mount opts="-fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid,nonstrict,rsize=8192,wsize=8192" # Showmount comes in a number of names and varieties. "showmount" is # typically an older version which accepts the '--no-headers' flag # but ignores it. "kshowmount" is the newer version installed with knfsd, # which both accepts and acts on the '--no-headers' flag. #SHOWMOUNT="kshowmount --no-headers -e $key" #SHOWMOUNT="showmount -e $key | tail +2" # Newer distributions get this right SHOWMOUNT="/usr/lib/autofs/showmount --no-headers -e $key" $SHOWMOUNT | sort +0 | \ awk -v key="$key" -v opts="$opts" -- ' BEGIN { ORS=""; first=1 } { if (first) { print opts; first=0 }; print " \\\n\t" $1 , key ":" $1 } END { if (!first) print "\n"; else exit 1 } ' ----snap----------- It is marked as executable. It also returns the mounts available, but this failed mkdir_path is the anoying thing. I am running Linux myhost 2.4.9 #1 Your help is much appreciated! Thank you. Hauke
