Hi, thank you for your response. I have the famous alias autofs autofs4 line in my /etc/modules.conf. The kernel protocol version 3 could well be the problem. I am using a SUSE distro 7.1 and 7.3. Maybe because they include everything kernel-possible as a module, the version 3 instead of 4 of autofs is loaded. Any idea how to change this (without recompiling the kernel)?
Hauke Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2001 16:17 schrieb Murata, Wayne: > 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
