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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: Autofs Error Messages
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:53:19 +0800
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To: Thanh Tran <ttran7700@yahoo.com>
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Thanh Tran wrote:
> I've been having problems w/ automount.  It does not detect my usb
> drive.  Looking at the system logs, my kernel seems to see the usb
> stick insertion just fine.  The automount log indicates it's running.
> I get the following message.
> 
> automount[900]: attempting to mount entry /mnt/usbdrive/usbdrive 
> automount[900]: lookup(program): lookup for usbdrive failed 
> automount[900]: failed to mount /mnt/usbdrive/usbdrive
> 
> The auto.master:
> 
> /mnt/usbdrive /etc/auto.usbdrive
> 
> The auto.usbdrive: usbdrive	-fstype=vfat,uid=500,gid=500,umask=002
> :/dev/sdb1
> 
> I've done a quick internet search on the issue and the advice I got
> was to check the auto.usbdrive file.  It seems OK to me.  Any other
> suggestions?  Thanks in advance.

Looks like /etc/auto.usbdrive is executable and autofs is trying to
execute it instead of reading it.

Ian