I performed some testing in the early morning hours and this is what I found. The problem seems to be with the --ghost option. When I specify this in my auto.master:
/- /etc/auto.virtual --ghost I get the originally reported errors. When I remove the --ghost option it seems to work as expected. For good measure I also removed the --bind option from all of my entries per Ian's suggestion. He was right they still work without the bind option. -- Dannie On 10/31/05, Dannie Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Kent has pointed me to this list. I have included my original > message thread posted to linux-kernel (sorry for the incorrect > posting). Here are my answers to Ian's specific questions: > > > Distribution? > $ cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 6) > > > Your version of autofs? > $ rpm -q autofs > autofs-4.1.3-154 > > > Kernel version? > $ uname -a > Linux ... 2.4.21-37.EL #1 Wed Sep 7 13:35:21 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > Have any autofs4 patches been applied to your kernel? > Standard packaged RedHat kernel, no patches. > > > What do you have in your master map? > $ cat /etc/auto.master > #/- /etc/auto.virtual --ghost > /- /etc/auto.virtual > > > Then you have 1345 offset mount (multi-mount) entries similar to the > > one above. Each with two offsets. Correct? > True. > > > How many automount processes end up running after starting autofs? > Two... > $ ps -fC automount |cut -c49-200 > CMD > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=86400 /- file /etc/auto.virtual > /usr/sbin/automount --submount --timeout=86400 /virtual file /etc/auto.virtual > > > Thanks for your help! > Dannie _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
