Re: Automounter stops after reload signal.

[Stef Bon <stef@bononline.nl>]

Ian Kent wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 18:14 +0200, Stef Bon wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been working on a construction which adds an autofs managed 
>> mountpoint to the homedirectory, when:
>> a. an usb device or more than one is detected when logging in
>> b. an usb device is plugged in during a session
>>     
>
> What version of autofs did you say you are using?
>   

Well, 5.0.4.

I can imagine that my story is complicated, so I've found a simple way 
to get the same behaviour.

Add the following line to the auto.master file in /etc/autofs:

/mnt/smb   /etc/autofs/auto.smb

Start the daemon, or, if already running, do a reload.

Play with the new mountpoint, so do something like :

ls /mnt/smb/<valid name of smb host>

look at the result, a tree should be the result.

Now remove the line again, (thus: "/mnt/smb /etc/a...."), and give the 
daemon a reload again,

and the daemon stops.

I've got a 2.6.27.9 kernel, patched with

autofs4-2.6.27-dev-ioctl-20081029.patch and
autofs4-2.6.27-v5-update-20081027.patch

Stef Bon