On Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:17:26 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:

> Subject: Re: [autofs] hostname lookup failed: Operation not permitted
> To: "jehan.procaccia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: autofs mailing list <[email protected]>,  "Eric. Doutreleau"
>     <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:06 +0200, jehan.procaccia wrote:
>> Hello,

>> I have several users that cannot automount their homdir . The logs
says:

>> Oct 14 15:56:47 anaconda automount[10054]: create_udp_client:
hostname
>> lookup failed: Operation not permitted
>> Oct 14 15:56:47 anaconda automount[10054]: create_tcp_client:
hostname
>> lookup failed: Operation not permitted

...

>> Oct 14 16:01:19 anaconda automount[10054]: create_tcp_client:
hostname

>> lookup failed: Operation not permitted

> A missing /etc/hosts file can cause this error.

> Ian

 It seems odd to get "operation not permitted" for this failure mode.
 However it seems obviously related to hostname resolution:
 (/etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/hosts.conf, NIS or LDAP maps ... DNS ...
nscd?
 something)

--
JimD

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