autofs confusion

[Rich Lafferty]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:04:05PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> I've just brought up a dual Opteron machine with FC2T3.  This is my
> first FC2 install, and everything seems to be going well except for
> autofs.
> 
> Automounting is used extensively here for home directories and for
> third-party apps in /usr/local.  For often used applications we rsync
> some directories from a central server.  (One day I'll make RPMs out
> of everything, but for now this is much easier.)  So
> /etc/auto_usr_local has lines like:
> 
> mathematica server:/export/stuff/mathematica-5.0
> matlab      localhost:/cache/pkg/matlab-6.5.1

Just to confirm, do you *mean* "localhost" there? (You mentioned
above that you expect to mount off of a central server, so I'm not
sure it's not a slip.)

> This has worked fine for years now, from FC1 on back, with bind mounts
> being used for the dirctories on localhost.  Under FC2T3, however,
> /usr/local/mathematica is there while /usr/local/matlab is not.  This
> appears in the logs:
> 
> Apr 29 12:52:28 compute08 automount[3112]: failed to mount /usr/local/matlab

That's only the symptom; you need to dig deeper to find the cause.
Can you mount the filesystem by hand? Is an nfs server running on
localhost in the first place? Does /etc/exports permit localhost
access? Does portmap (in /etc/hosts.allow)?

  -Rich

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