Hello, In my LAN I have a server in which all the /home for users reside. The /home is shared via NFS. The server also as a NIS server. The server is running Centos 4.1. Other machines (including my desktop) in the LAN mount the /home from the server, using automount. Here is /etc/auto.master: /home /etc/auto.home
and /etc/auto.home: * -rw,intr,soft,timeo=300,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 server1:/home/& Sometimes ago, and this has been happening since, I noticed some oddities in my NFS server. In fact I asked about this on Fedora-List about it but got no respond:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=113827738925694&w=2 Basically the problem was my NFS server has been getting lots of hits by mount request from my desktop, for non existence files. The log of the NFS server showes, for example: Mar 25 14:48:00 server1 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from desktop1.localdomain:769 for /home/format (/home) Mar 25 14:48:00 server1 rpc.mountd: can't stat exported dir /home/format: No such file or directory Mar 25 14:48:01 server1 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from desktop1.localdomain:773 for /home/format (/home) Mar 25 14:48:01 server1 rpc.mountd: can't stat exported dir /home/format: No such file or directory My desktop is running FC4. It turns out that this is caused by a process called gam_server. Once in a while, after opening some application, (eg. GIMP, but it could be anything else), I would notice increased disk activities on the desktop while nothing obvious is happening. Then if I check my /var/log/message and the /var/log/message of the NFS server, I see the NFS requests hitting the server as I mentioned above. When I kill the gam_server process, everything would be fine again, and gam_server restarts itself with different PID. So my question is, why does gam_server try to poll non-existence files in /home ? Sometimes what gam_server tries to poll seems very random, for example this morning I saw it tried to poll /home/mmk, /home/.directory, etc. I don't even know where it came up with those. Is this a problem with gam_server, or a problem with my configuration ? Is there anything I can do to stop this ? Thank you for any help. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN _______________________________________________ Gamin-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gamin-list
