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From: Dylan <autofs@dylan.me.uk>
To: autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>
Subject: autofs4 and NIS
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 01:59:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401010159.12640.autofs@dylan.me.uk> (raw)

Hello all,

I'm currently using autofs4 to mount nfs shares. The config files are 
distributed via NIS, which overall is working without a hitch. I have 
two related problems, however...

It is, obviously, necessary to restart the NIS server from time to time, 
in order to take account of config changes (usually changes to user 
accounts.) When I do this, the following occurs:

A: nfs shares which are unmounted become unavailable (cd-ing to the 
directory results in a 'no such file or directory' error)

B: nfs shares which are mounted report stale file handles.

I can understand where problem A comes from - and I figure restarting 
autofs would clear that, but it is not really practical to do on each 
machine. But I'm not sure why B should happen...?

Dylan
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             reply	other threads:[~2004-01-01  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-01  1:59 Dylan [this message]
2004-01-01  4:13 ` autofs4 and NIS Ian Kent
2004-01-05 15:28 ` Todd Denniston
2004-01-05 16:21 ` Michael Blandford

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