==> Regarding [autofs] problem with symbolic links and autofs; Chris Walker 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:

> Hello, I'm having a problem that I think is related to
> autofs; I apologize in advance if it isn't.  I have a
> cluster with two partitions, /home/cw and /misc_data,
> that are automounted to all nodes in the cluster. There
> is a symbolic link, /home/cw/DATA3D, that points to
> /misc_data/cw/DATA3D.  Most of the time this link works
> without a problem.  When I run code that writes to
> /home/cw/DATA3D, however, it crashes, complaining that
> there is no such file or directory.  If I log in to the
> node and ls -l /misc_data_cw, it gives me a flashing
> red name for DATA3D as if it is a broken link, even
> though the rest of the partition is mounted and acting
> normally.  Furthermore, I can avoid the whole problem
> by logging in to the node before the job runs and
> entering /misc_data/cw/DATA3D.  We didn't have this
> problem when we were running RedHat 3.3; it's only
> since we upgraded to 4.0 (with autofs-4.1.3-155) that
> this has shown up.

> Any advice is appreciated.

File a bug with Red Hat (bugzilla.redhat.com).  When doing so, please
provide the information listed in the "Filing bug reports" section of:
http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer/

Thanks,

Jeff

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