autofs confusion

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

I've just brought up a dual Opteron machine with FC2T3.  This is my
first FC2 install, and everything seems to be going well except for
autofs.

Automounting is used extensively here for home directories and for
third-party apps in /usr/local.  For often used applications we rsync
some directories from a central server.  (One day I'll make RPMs out
of everything, but for now this is much easier.)  So
/etc/auto_usr_local has lines like:

mathematica server:/export/stuff/mathematica-5.0
matlab      localhost:/cache/pkg/matlab-6.5.1

This has worked fine for years now, from FC1 on back, with bind mounts
being used for the dirctories on localhost.  Under FC2T3, however,
/usr/local/mathematica is there while /usr/local/matlab is not.  This
appears in the logs:

Apr 29 12:52:28 compute08 automount[3112]: failed to mount /usr/local/matlab

I guess the move to autofs4 is involved but I don't know if what I'm
doing is expected not to work or if this is a real bug.

 - J<