RH 9 automount resets and cron.daily

[Chiu, PCM (Peter)]

Thanks, Rick,

The auto.master contains the switch --timeout=300.

That means it should timeout every 5 minutes, after that,
the client will umount an idle nfs file system.

But what I don't quite follow is that why the automount reset at
04:02:00 every day?

I have seen this on more than one systems that have unrelated NFS
file systems served with automout.  

Their system logs record the same automout reset at the same time?

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] 
Sent: 17 March 2004 18:00
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: RH 9 automount resets and cron.daily


Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote:
> In the system log file /var/log/messages, there are repeating messages 
> at
> 
> 04:02:00 systemx rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from machinex
> for /disks/folderx
> 
> and on the client that has a NFS file system automounted,
> 
> 04:02:00 systemy automount:[pid]: attempting to mount entry 
> /disks/folderx 04:06:34 systemy automount:[pid]: expired 
> /disks/folderx
> 
> Can anyone tell me why the automounted file systems gets reset and 
> needs
> to be remounted
> at that time of the day?
> 
> The only possibly clue I can find is relating to cron.daily, but 
> cannot
> pinpoint what that is.
> 
> This has been  causing undesireable resets on the file systems.

The problem is on the client's automount config.  Check the 
/etc/auto.master file for the various options on the filesystem that's
mounted--particularly any "timeo" or "timeout" values.
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