From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erich Weiler Subject: Autofs hang, centos 4.4 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:02:48 -0800 Message-ID: <455C8BA8.9070609@soe.ucsc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Errors-To: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org To: autofs@linux.kernel.org Hi All- I'm having this problem with autofs under CentOS 4.4 linux that I was hoping someone could shed some light on... Basically I have a bunch of auto.* tables set up in /etc. They work fine. What does not work fine is that when someone tries to automount a directory that doesn't exist, the command hangs forever, and has to be killed. For instance: % cd /projects/foo [hangs] because /projects/foo is unavailable. Now let me make it a bit more complex: The machine I'm mounting on is on a private network (10.x.x.x), the nfs server is on a public network. There is no NAT routing to the public network. I was assuming that because the machine could not reach the NFS server it would just fail or timeout, not hang the terminal... I know this is an odd setup, but it is the way it is and I'm trying to deal with it. :) Am I out of luck? Or can I tweak something to make this just fail or timeout? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! Regards, erich