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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: autofs mounting certain home directories for no reason
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:32:30 +0900
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To: Krish Pillai <kpillai@lhup.edu>
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Krish Pillai wrote:
> I just upgraded from Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 
> (2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64) on some of my machines and autofs seems 
> to be acting up. My server is running fc7.
> I have ypbind and automount running on all clients and the clients seem 
> to be repeatedly sending mount/umount  requests to the server on behalf 
> of users who are not even trying to log in. As a result I see home 
> directories getting mounted on the clients and getting unmounted all the 
> time. Is this a known problem? If so, is there a fix?

I'm not aware of a problem.

You probably should collect information as described at 
http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer and log a bug. The debug log and autofs 
maps are probably the most important bits initially.

Ian