autofs confusion
Neal D. Becker
ndbecker2 at verizon.net
Thu Apr 29 19:07:12 UTC 2004
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "RL" == Rich Lafferty <rich+rhl at lafferty.ca> writes:
>
> RL> Just to confirm, do you *mean* "localhost" there? (You mentioned
> RL> above that you expect to mount off of a central server, so I'm not
> RL> sure it's not a slip.)
>
> Sorry for not explaining more clearly; for often used applications, we
> keep a local copy updated via rsync. This is stored in /cache on each
> machine.
>
> RL> That's only the symptom; you need to dig deeper to find the
> RL> cause. Can you mount the filesystem by hand? Is an nfs server
> RL> running on localhost in the first place?
>
> An NFS server has never been required to be running on localhost in
> the past. autofs would use bind mounts to access filesystems on the
> local host and bypass NFS altogether. Remember, the exact same setup
> has been running on everything from FC1 to Red Hat 6.2 (probably
> earlier but I can't remember back that far).
>
> I figured out how to increase the verbosity and got this:
>
> Apr 29 13:31:49 compute08 automount[2010]: attempting to mount entry
> /usr/local/bin Apr 29 13:31:49 compute08 automount[2020]: mount(nfs): no
> host elected Apr 29 13:31:49 compute08 automount[2020]: failed to mount
> /usr/local/bin
>
> So it indeed seems to be trying NFS instead of using bind mounts as it
> used to do. Now I'm off to try and figure out why; it would be a real
> shame if that had stopped working.
>
> - J<
>
>
Works here using real hostname, not localhost. Did you try that?
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