On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 05:55 -0700, Thanh Tran wrote: > Thank you for your reply. I'm using autofs because my system is > stripped down. I'm not running any GUI's. It's all command lines for > me. Only esseintial services and apps were installed. I did the same > thing under Fedora 5 and didn't have any problems. Perhaps, I'm > missing a service that autofs needs???
OK, then get a debug log by following the instructions at http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer and we'll see if we can see what's going on. > > > --- On Thu, 8/14/08, Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [autofs] Fedora 8 And Autofs > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [email protected] > > Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 1:00 AM > > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 05:43 -0700, Thanh Tran wrote: > > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > > > My auto.master file looks like this. > > > > > > /mnt/cdrom /etc/auto.cdrom --timeout 2 > > > /mnt/floppy /etc/auto.floppy --timeout 1 > > > /mnt/usbdrive /etc/auto.usbdrive --timeout 2 > > > > > > My auto.cdrom looks like this. > > > > > > cdrom -fstype=iso9660,user,suid :/dev/cdrom > > > > > > I did a lshal -monitor to make sure the physical > > devices were at least being detected when I inserted them to > > the USB. > > > > And I suppose you've configured Gnome to not mount > > these removable > > devices for you when they are become available? > > > > Fact is that GUI handling of removable devices is usually > > better than > > using autofs for these, but I guess you use autofs rather > > than the GUI > > for a reason. > > > > > > > > I did a "/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs status" > > under Fedora 8 and only got this. > > > > > > automount (pid 1524) is running... > > > > > > I did the same call under Fedora 5 and got this. > > > > > > Configured Mount Points: > > > ------------------------ > > > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /mnt/cdrom file > > /etc/auto.cdrom > > > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /mnt/floppy file > > /etc/auto.floppy > > > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /mnt/usbdrive file > > /etc/auto.usbdrive > > > > > > Active Mount Points: > > > -------------------- > > > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /mnt/cdrom file > > /etc/auto.cdrom > > > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /mnt/floppy file > > /etc/auto.floppy > > > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /mnt/usbdrive file > > /etc/auto.usbdrive > > > > > > This output leads me to believe the auto.master is not > > loading correctly under Fedora 8. > > > > There isn't a simple way for the init script to get > > this information > > from version 5 yet. You can "cat /proc/mounts|grep > > autofs" if you want > > to see what autofs mounts have been made but there are no > > individual > > processes any more. Having the init script interrogate > > /proc/mounts was > > considered at one stage but that hasn't been done > > because we would > > rather get the information from the daemon. > > > > Ian > > > _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
