autofs confusion

[Neal D. Becker]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

>>>>>> "RL" == Rich Lafferty <rich+rhl at lafferty.ca> writes:
> 
> RL> Just to confirm, do you *mean* "localhost" there? (You mentioned
> RL> above that you expect to mount off of a central server, so I'm not
> RL> sure it's not a slip.)
> 
> Sorry for not explaining more clearly; for often used applications, we
> keep a local copy updated via rsync.  This is stored in /cache on each
> machine.
> 
> RL> That's only the symptom; you need to dig deeper to find the
> RL> cause. Can you mount the filesystem by hand? Is an nfs server
> RL> running on localhost in the first place?
> 
> An NFS server has never been required to be running on localhost in
> the past.  autofs would use bind mounts to access filesystems on the
> local host and bypass NFS altogether.  Remember, the exact same setup
> has been running on everything from FC1 to Red Hat 6.2 (probably
> earlier but I can't remember back that far).
> 
> I figured out how to increase the verbosity and got this:
> 
> Apr 29 13:31:49 compute08 automount[2010]: attempting to mount entry
> /usr/local/bin Apr 29 13:31:49 compute08 automount[2020]: mount(nfs): no
> host elected Apr 29 13:31:49 compute08 automount[2020]: failed to mount
> /usr/local/bin
> 
> So it indeed seems to be trying NFS instead of using bind mounts as it
> used to do.  Now I'm off to try and figure out why; it would be a real
> shame if that had stopped working.
> 
>  - J<
> 
> 

Works here using real hostname, not localhost.  Did you try that?