==> Regarding Re: [autofs] automounted filesystems being unmounted and mounted 
every minute; "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:

brian> On Fri, 2006-27-10 at 16:14 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hi,

brian> Hello,

>> I've been puzzling over a similar problem with mounts of long since
>> removed users' home directories occurring every few minutes for some
>> time and was thrilled to discover this thread on the subject, however
>> after enabling debugging as instructed I only get:
>> 
>> Oct 27 16:06:04 e1shdb03 automount[16563]: handle_packet: type = 0 Oct
>> 27 16:06:04 e1shdb03 automount[16563]: handle_packet_missing: token
>> 1487772, name scott Oct 27 16:06:04 e1shdb03 automount[16563]:
>> attempting to mount entry /users/scott
>> 
>> RHEL AS 3 autofs-4.1.3-154 2.4.21-37.0.1.ELhugemem
>> 
>> Do you have any other suggestions for methods to identify the processes
>> that are triggering these mount attempts?

brian> The instructions at http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer were very
brian> helpful on my Mandriva boxes as it would print the pid.  On my
brian> Ubuntu Edgy box though no pids to be found.  :-(

brian> In my case I found two causes:

brian>      1. Having an automounted share in my GTK "bookmarks" was
brian> causing a ping-pong effect where as soon as it was unmounted,
brian> gnome-panel wanted to go stat it.  Stupid.  2. An open Nautilus
brian> window and/or a Nautilus desktop icon on/for an automounted share
brian> was causing the same kind of ping pong.

The new autofs kernel code logs pid information of the requester.  Older
code bases do not.

-Jeff

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