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From: Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: How to make Autofs check if ldap server is back online
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:10:58 +0100
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To: "Eric B." <ebenze@hotmail.com>, autofs@linux.kernel.org

Eric B. a =E9crit :
> Is there anything I can do to force autofs to check to see if my LDAP ser=
ver
> is back online?
If you have some kind of automated configuration management software, =

such as cfengine or puppet, you can monitor status of ldap-based mount =

maps periodically.

However, if you use those tools, you may as well distribute plain old =

file-based mount maps, than never fail.

-- =

BOFH excuse #311:

transient bus protocol violation