Andreas J. Guelzow grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> David Guntner wrote:
> >
> > My /etc/auto.master file has this in it:
> >
> > /mnt/cdrom /etc/auto.cdrom
> >
> > and my /etc/auto.cdrom file has this:
> >
> > cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro :/dev/cdrom
> >
> > I've even tried using:
> > cd -fstype=iso9660,ro :/dev/hdc
> >
> > to exactly match what's in the example in the man page(s). I started it
> > up, and got no error messages, but trying to access /mnt/cdrom just give me
> > empty directory listing (for the directory where the mount is *supposed* to
> > go), but not what's on the CD. Any pointers?
>
> If autofs is running correctly on your machine then /mnt/cdrom will be
> empty (until you have caused a mount).
It *says* it's running. When I do a "/etc/init.d/autofs status" command,
it gives a response of:
/usr/sbin/automount /mnt/cdrom file /etc/auto.cdrom
for both the configured and active mount points. However, doing a
"ls -la /mnt/cdrom" only returns an empty directory listing.
> Your /etc/auto.master says to
> mount stuff _inside_ /mnt/cdrom according to /etc/auto.cdrom.
> The /etc/auto.cdrom file:
>
> cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro :/dev/cdrom
>
> would therefore cause /dev/cdrom to be mounted at /mnt/cdrom/cdrom when you
> access that directory. You should therefore try to
> cd /mnt/cdrom/cdrom; ls
I tried that, and got "no such directory." Following the information you
proviede above I then tried shortening up the entry in /etc/auto.master to
just say:
/mnt /etc/auto.cdrom
in the hopes that it would mount /dev/cdrom at /mnt/cdrom. It mounted
*something* at /mnt, but I'm still getting an empty directory listing, *at*
/mnt. I.E., after executing the command, doing a "ls -la /mnt" gave me an
empty directory listing - none of the other directories in place to take my
other mount points showed up anymore. Oops. Changed that back and
restarted autofs. :-) From that behavior, it looks like it *is* trying to
mount something at the mountpoint specified, but it's not actually
accessing my CD-ROM. If I do a manual mount command, I can access the
CD-ROM just fine, BTW.
Any other ideas for how to attack this? Or should I just go back to
wishing that they'd get supermount working properly again? :-)
--Dave
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