Hi all We run 150+ RHEL3 workstations and a handfull of RHEL4 and RHEL5 boxes. Our automount maps are served from a Sun One Directory Server v5.1, the main automount map contains 1258 entries.
On RHEL3 (update 9 fully patched) and RHEL5 (fully patched), autofs behaves just fine, exactly as we need. On RHEL4 autofs behaves very differently. (kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.9.EL, autofs-4.1.3-199.3). Symptoms: 1) Weirdness with symlinks ls -ld /scratch /scratch/memconf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Sep 4 11:11 /scratch -> /nfs/perseus/scratch lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 34 Oct 16 05:05 /scratch/memconf -> /nfs/wwwproxy/data/mgmtvol/memconf On EL3/5, 'ls -l /scratch/memconf/' will list the contents of the directory '/scratch/memconf' points at. On EL4, the first time you do a 'ls -l /scratch/memconf/' will produce 'ls: /scratch/memconf/: No such file or directory'. Repeating the command will sometimes give the same error but eventually it will work and once working will continue to work until the mounts expire and then you're back to square one. 2) Different behavior with BASH, <TAB> completions: On EL3/5, typing /scra<TAB> will complete to '/scratch/' On EL4, typing /scra<TAB> will complete to '/scratch ' (note the space at the end). I know this is minor but the users hate this. If '/scratch' is already automounted, the <TAB> completion will put a '/' at the end rather than a space. I have attached our /etc/auto.master and /etc/sysconfig/autofs files. <<auto.master>> <<autofs>> Thanks in advance CC NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments.
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