Program Lookup Failure
Sjoerd Mullender
sjoerd at acm.org
Fri Sep 8 09:34:43 UTC 2006
On 2006-09-08 11:05, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Every day logwatch reports the following:
>
> --------------------- Automount Begin ------------------------
>
>
> Failed mounts:
> .directory Program Lookup Failure 13 Time(s)
> net Mount Failure 13 Time(s)
>
> ---------------------- Automount End -------------------------
>
> In October last year Claude Jones suggested that autofs could/should be turned
> off unless it is known to be used. He said that it would not affect mounting
> usb devices. He didn't say, however, whether it would affect the pop-up
> behaviour when a data disk is inserted into a CD/DVD drive.
>
> Question 1 - does it affect CD/DVD drives?
No.
> Question 2 - the man page makes it sound as though autofs is pretty essential,
> being used during bootup. Would shutting it off impact on this?
Are you referring to the sentence:
"Usually autofs is invoked at system boot time with the start
parameter and at shutdown time with the stop parameter."?
That refers to the script in /etc/init.d and is true for any script
there that is enabled. It only means that the autofs system is enabled
automatically during boot, when so requested.
autofs not essential for bootup.
> Question 3 - what else do I need to know?
Look in the file /etc/auto.master. If there are no uncommented lines,
you can disable autofs with impunity.
--
Sjoerd Mullender
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