==> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:02:48 -0800, Erich Weiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Erich> Hi All- I'm having this problem with autofs under CentOS 4.4 Erich> linux that I was hoping someone could shed some light on... The version of autofs would be a bit more useful than the version of CentOS you are using. Erich> Basically I have a bunch of auto.* tables set up in /etc. They Erich> work fine. What does not work fine is that when someone tries Erich> to automount a directory that doesn't exist, the command hangs Erich> forever, and has to be killed. For instance: Erich> % cd /projects/foo [hangs] Erich> because /projects/foo is unavailable. Now let me make it a bit Erich> more complex: The machine I'm mounting on is on a private Erich> network (10.x.x.x), the nfs server is on a public network. Erich> There is no NAT routing to the public network. I was assuming Erich> that because the machine could not reach the NFS server it Erich> would just fail or timeout, not hang the terminal... Erich> I know this is an odd setup, but it is the way it is and I'm Erich> trying to deal with it. :) Am I out of luck? Or can I tweak Erich> something to make this just fail or timeout? Any advice would Erich> be greatly appreciated!! Add the mount options "hard" and "intr" to your map. Most likely that will take care of the problem by allowing you to hit Ctrl-C. If it doesn't, then please consult http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer for a list of things we need to diagnose problems. Thanks, Jeff _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
