Of course the cd... can fail for all differnet reasons. After you started autofs what does mount say. After you tried to cd into your cdrom what does mount say? Are there any error messages in /var/log/messages? Andreas David Guntner wrote: > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > message.footer > > Content-Type: > > text/plain > Content-Encoding: > > 8bit > > -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Assoc. Prof of Mathematics Concordia University College of Alberta http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow
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