Re: Some reload problems.

[Stef Bon <stef@bononline.nl>]

Ian Kent wrote:
>> May  6 11:32:15 localhost automount[5773]: autofs stopped
>>
>> So this is what happens.
>>     
>
> So, autofs just exits.
>
> The problem is that autofs needs to know when to exit and that amounts
> to checking if any active mounts are left. But that check breaks down
> because we need to avoid it unless we've actually been asked to shutdown
> and, at the moment, this isn't known to the function that does the
> check. The condition is checked every time a mount point shuts down.
>
> I think I can fix this fairly easily but, for it to be a simple fix, we
> will need a patch I'm working on to be merged first.
>
> So you're stuck, for a while anyway.
>   

Well I'm not really stuck. The way I've solved it is to add another 
mountpoint to /etc/autofs/auto.master
which remains there. Then there is no problem.

And I can wait.

Thank you for looking to this problem.
With all these steps I hope I can create a contruction which allows a 
more powerfull access to network resources
than there exist today.

Stef Bon