Hello,
Default behavior of autofs is not to mount unless you need it. Mkdir is
probably doing some kind of stat as part of it's normal routine. Executing
'cd /misc/beast' would also trigger a mount.
If you want to see all your automount-points, there are options like
browsing (I am not sure since I don't use them). There has been a lot of
discussion about it in the past, try to search the list archives.
HTH,
<< ryan
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Mick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my first post so please bear with me while I try to report this
> issues.
>
> I'm using kernel 2.6.7 with no patches.. Here are my relavent config
> files:
>
> cat /etc/autofs/auto.master
> # $Id: auto.master,v 1.1 2000/08/08 17:53:33 achim Exp $
> # Sample auto.master file
> # Format of this file:
> # mountpoint map options
> # For details of the format look at autofs(8).
> /misc /etc/autofs/auto.misc --timeout=20
>
> cat /etc/autofs/auto.misc
> # $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 2002/10/27 05:21:15 bcowan Exp $
> # This is an automounter map and it has the following format
> # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
> # Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage
> #boot -fstype=ext2 :/dev/hda1
> #cd -fstype=iso9660,ro :/dev/cdrom
> #floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0
> beast -fstype=smbfs,uid=wheel,username=mick,password=""
> ://beast/tmp
> beast-cd-dvd -fstype=smbfs,uid=wheel,username=mick,password=""
> ://beast/dvd-cdrw
> beast-cd -fstype=smbfs,uid=wheel,username=mick,password=""
> ://MICKPERLAPTOP/dvd-cdrw
>
> I have some confusion about whether one is meant to use the ip hostname of a
> device, or the SMB hostname from 'smbtree' so I'm testing with both..
>
> automount is running:
> ps aux | grep auto
> root 5288 0.0 0.2 1556 664 ? S 22:27 0:00
> /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 20 /misc file /etc/autofs/auto.misc
>
> I have tried with both having autofs create /misc or me 'mkdir /misc' ing
> the dir. Both seem to have the same effect, so I'm assuming most of the
> documentation floating around is wrong, as what I have read says you must
> create the dir for autofs to mount to.
>
> However, nothing mounts (well, it does, but not without my intervention, as
> you'll read later)...
>
> freevo / # ls -lah /misc
> total 4.0K
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 1 22:28 .
> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4.0K Sep 1 22:27 ..
> freevo / #
>
> The only way I can find to mount it is to try to mkdir one of the dirs.. (I
> stumbles onto this..)
> freevo / # mkdir /misc/beast
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/misc/beast': File exists
>
> freevo / # ls -lah /misc
> total 8.0K
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 1 22:39 .
> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4.0K Sep 1 22:27 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 1 65535 root 4.0K Sep 1 22:39 beast
> freevo / #
>
> And now the dir is mounted and accessable..
>
> Please, has anyone experienced anythign like this?? Any ideas what is going
> wrong?
>
> Mick
>
> One more thing... Whever I am 'in' (ssh) the /misc dir and doing systemsy
> things.. I get funny /var/log/messages in relations to automount. I've
> executed the majority of the commands from within /misc, they worked as
> expected but for some reason automount logs the following (NB: These are the
> ONLY logs for automount in /var/log/messages..):
>
> Sep 1 21:42:34 freevo automount[12926]: failed to mount /misc/dmesg
> Sep 1 21:44:58 freevo automount[13042]: failed to mount /misc/dmesg
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13534]: failed to mount /misc/smbcacls
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13535]: failed to mount /misc/smbcontrol
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13536]: failed to mount /misc/smbd
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13537]: failed to mount /misc/smbmnt
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13538]: failed to mount /misc/smbpasswd
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13539]: failed to mount /misc/smbstatus
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13540]: failed to mount /misc/smbtorture
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13541]: failed to mount /misc/smbumount
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13542]: failed to mount /misc/smbclient
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13543]: failed to mount /misc/smbcquotas
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13544]: failed to mount /misc/smbfilter
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13545]: failed to mount /misc/smbmount
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13546]: failed to mount /misc/smbspool
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13547]: failed to mount /misc/smbtar
> Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13548]: failed to mount /misc/smbtree
>
> I am fairly newbie, so please go easy on me ;-)
>
> Mick
>
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