--timeout doesn't do anything on fedora3 or 5

--timeout doesn't do anything on fedora3 or 5

[marty]

On both fedora3 and fedora5, I can't get the --timeout option on autofs to 
do anything useful.

I saw a bug report on fedora3, but getting a newer release doesn't seem to 
make a difference.
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2005-02/0488.html

Is there anyway to "monitor" the timeout interactively from user space 
(instead of "waiting" to see if it happens,
watch to see its counting down?)

marty 

Re: --timeout doesn't do anything on fedora3 or 5

[Ian Kent]

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 21:26 -0400, marty wrote:
> On both fedora3 and fedora5, I can't get the --timeout option on autofs to 
> do anything useful.
> 
> I saw a bug report on fedora3, but getting a newer release doesn't seem to 
> make a difference.
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2005-02/0488.html
> 
> Is there anyway to "monitor" the timeout interactively from user space 
> (instead of "waiting" to see if it happens,
> watch to see its counting down?)

To start with more information is needed.
See http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer and provide the information
described.

Enabling debug as described in Jeffs page will log the startup and
specify the timeout being used and log entries every time there is a
check.

Ian

Re: --timeout doesn't do anything on fedora3 or 5

[Jeff Moyer]

==> Regarding Re: [autofs] --timeout doesn't do anything on fedora3 or 5; Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> adds:

raven> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 21:26 -0400, marty wrote:
>> On both fedora3 and fedora5, I can't get the --timeout option on autofs
>> to do anything useful.
>> 
>> I saw a bug report on fedora3, but getting a newer release doesn't seem
>> to make a difference.
>> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2005-02/0488.html
>> 
>> Is there anyway to "monitor" the timeout interactively from user space
>> (instead of "waiting" to see if it happens, watch to see its counting
>> down?)

raven> To start with more information is needed.  See
raven> http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer and provide the information
raven> described.

raven> Enabling debug as described in Jeffs page will log the startup and
raven> specify the timeout being used and log entries every time there is a
raven> check.

It's worth noting that most times when users report that mounts aren't
timing out, the problem is another app periodically accessing the mounted
directory.

-Jeff