On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Prakash Velayutham wrote: > Ian Kent wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Prakash Velayutham wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/25/05 1:47 PM >>> > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Prakash Velayutham wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I am new to this list, so please forgive my ignorances. > > > > I had a SuSE Pro 9.0 system running autofs (v3) running earlier. The > > > > autofs itself did not have any issues at all until I decided to > > > > > > > upgrade > > > > the system to SuSE 9.3. It was a clean install, and autofs4-4.1.3 > > > > > > > became > > > > the default kernel autofs module. My autofs master map comes from a > > > > OpenLDAP server and it contains 3 different mount maps. > > > > /users (LDAP map) > > > > /protein/users (LDAP map) > > > > /import/users (LDAP map) > > > > I also have a file-based map in this server (/export/users). > > > > > > > > Recently I was trying to move a user's home dir from server1 to > > > > > > > server2. > > > > After moving his home dir and making the relevant changes to his LDAP > > > > entry (homeDirectory attribute), I tried to restart autofs in the > > > > above-mentioned server. The server already had several users logged in > > > > under /protein/users. Though the restart did not complain, I > > > > noticed that autofs status showed "Configured mount points" correctly > > > > and removed the currently mounted mount points from "Active mount > > > > points". > > > > Is there a reason why? Also strangely the ownerships of the > > > > previously > > > > mounted dirs had been changed to root:root. > > > > > > > I'm not sure what is not working or what has been broken. > > > What is the actual problem and symptom? > > > > > > Ian > > > > > > Thanks Ian for a reply. What if I restart autofs when a user whose home > > > dir is mounted through autofs is already logged into the system (and > > > hence at least one of the automount entries is being used)? What will > > > the system do in that case? > > > > > > > On runing "reload" it should, depending on version and patch levels re-read > > and update the map, leave the mounted directory mounted and leave the stale > > map entry for cleanup next time the map is reloaded and the entry isn't > > mounted. > > "Restart"ing is much more agressive and I wouldn't recommend it if you have > > mount that are in use. To restart you really need to have nothing actually > > in use. > > > > > > > And also if I change the ldap attribute "homeDirectory" for a user, do I > > > have to restart autofs in a system for that change to be seen. Because I > > > sometimes see that the system has cached the user's attributes from LDAP > > > and tries to use that and fails. > > > > > > > autofs doesn't use that attribute so no, but you'll need to be sure that the > > automount map entry that is used to access that directory is still valid > > following the change and if it also had to be changed then you might need to > > "reload" autofs. It's worth pointing out that later versions (most RedHat > > versions and 4.1.4 I think) of autofs should recognise this change on access > > without needing to re-load the map. > > > > The other thing I noticed about your query was the question about the root > > owned directory. At variuos times in the past development autofs has been > > (mostly intentionally) lazy about cleaning up mount point directories. When > > autofs directories don't have a filesystem mounted on them they will appear > > root owned. It shouldn't make a difference to operation. > > > > Ian > Thanks Ian. I tried out autofs reload and there seems to be a small glitch. It > says "checking for changes in auto.master" and then stops some of the > automount daemons. But stays there forever. If I do Ctrl-C, then it > immediately shows "Starting XXX" for the different automount daemons (except 1 > for some reason). Is there a reason for this behaviour. The system I am trying > out is SuSE Linux 10.0, autofs-4.1.4-6 with automount master map and the > entries coming from a OpenLDAP server.
Sounds like a bug to me. I'll try to duplcate it. Can you offer any additional information on your setup? Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
