Recently we migrated from static nfs mounts to autofs on our webserver. This concerns all /home/*/public_html/ directories which are mounted read-only by default. /etc/autofs/auto.home includes some exceptions whereas certain users requested their ~/public_html or even ~/ to be writable.
This setup works _almost_ all the time although syslog reveals some extremely strange behaviors, a snippet: Oct 31 17:38:02 host1 automount[14335]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure nfs.somewhere.com:/home/user/.bash_profile/public_html on /home/user/.bash_profile/public_html There are numerous similair failures including normal webserver requests. The above sample was the result of a "su - user" if anyone wonders. The big question mark is: Why does autofs try to mount ~/public_html one threshold/level lower? It shouldn't look any further than /home/anyuser/public_html. ~/public_html Server info =========== OS: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 net-fs/nfs-utils: 1.0.12-r1 net-libs/libnfsidmap: 0.19 An offtopic question: what is the real function of the -g (ghost) flag?? manpages aren't any help. Thank you in advance, xiwen _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
