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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: Autofs hang, centos 4.4
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:21:50 +0800
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On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:50 -0800, Erich Weiler wrote:
> > It would be good to temporarily setup an account the same as root but
> > which uses tcsh as its shell and check that as well.
> 
> Same thing happens.  Root must have some special power to kill hung 
> mounts that regular users don't.  Maybe because the automountd process 
> is owned by root?

Not that I'm aware of.
Don't think the ownership of automount has anything to do with this
issue.

Ian