Peter Staubach wrote: > Bill, why aren't you using the -hosts map? That's a good question...
I don't remember how I got to this point, but ... I just tried using -hosts, but it doesn't seem to be working: vostro# cat /etc/auto.master # $Id: auto.master,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:03 hpa Exp $ # Sample auto.master file # Format of this file: # mountpoint map options # For details of the format look at autofs(8). # /misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60 /home /etc/auto.home -nosuid #/net /etc/auto.net -nosuid /net -hosts -nosuid #/- /etc/auto.direct -nosuid vostro# /etc/init.d/autofs reload Reloading automounter: checking for changes ... Reloading automounter map for: /home Stopping automounter for: /smb vostro# ls /net/nissan ls: cannot access /net/nissan: No such file or directory vostro# /etc/init.d/autofs restart Stopping automounter: Couldn't stop automount for /home done. Starting automounter: failed to start automount point /home done. vostro# /etc/init.d/autofs reload Reloading automounter: checking for changes ... Reloading automounter map for: /home vostro# ls /net/nissan ls: cannot access /net/nissan: No such file or directory vostro# grep nissan /etc/hosts 192.168.1.2 nissan I think that's the reason I ended up with an auto.net map, although it now seems likely that it never worked as intended. I started chasing this problem because my auto.home map wasn't working, which I now understand is the expected behavior based on the way I'm now exporting my /export/home filesystems. My mistake. I just fixed my auto.home map using multimounts. Still, any hints as to why the -hosts pseudo-map isn't working would be appreciated. Are you sure it's *supposed* to work? It's not documented in the man page. I think this is the version of autofs I have: vostro# dpkg-query -l 'autofs*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii autofs 4.1.4+debian-2 kernel-based automounter for Linux Is there an "autofs5" package I should install instead? Thanks for your help! _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
