First thing to do is to mount your "autofs" things manually. See if
they mount at all. Also look in /var/log/messages for any reasons why
things do not mount. We have problems where not all of the "features"
of nfs are supported by autofs/nfs. Instead of ignoring them it just
does not do the mount.
Dan's suggestions are not specific to autofs. They are for any nfs
mount. Autofs is no different. It is just a fast typist and one that
is always waiting to go. Note that the issue that Dan describes is not
specific to Linux. I have this "what is the name really" problem with
Suns and SGI's too.
You can also do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs status command to see
what it thinks it is doing.
-connie sieh
csieh@fnal.gov
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 yocum@fnal.gov wrote:
>
> Dan,
>
> I'm forwarding your emails on to the linux-users list to which I've just
> subscribed you to, since I can't take much time to support off-site people.
>
> Some of the problems we've seen with autofs and yp concern the reverse name
> lookup of the client machine by the server. One thing that we find we have to
> do to get the Linux machines to work with the Sun ypserver is make sure the
> order is correct in /etc/hosts. For instance this is what mine looks like:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 131.225.81.95 sapphire.fnal.gov sapphire
>
> Note that the Red Hat default is this:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
>
> Take a look at the ypservers log files and see if there are messages something
> like "attempt to NFS mount from unauthorized host sapphire." The clue here is
> that it doesn't list the machine as "sapphire.fnal.gov."
>
> You could also modify the /etc/nsswitch file on the server to change how it
> doesn reverse name lookup. I believe the entry is 'automount.'
>
> Anybody else know of any specific problems using autofs with an OSF ypserver?
>
> Anyway, good luck.
>
> Dan
>
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> Hello Dan,
>
> I can't get autofs to work.
>
> linuxconf sets the NIS domain in the /etc/sysconfig/network file
> (the NIS server is OSF1)
>
> I put in the nis domain and nis host in the /etc/yp.conf file
>
> ypcat -k auto.master answers:
> /net -hosts
>
> ypcat -k hosts lists all the hosts
>
> amd worked on rh5.1
> yp passwords, etc work.
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
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> Hi Dan, Paul, et Kevin,
>
> Here's what I've found out so far:
>
> on fermi redhat 5.2.1
> ypcat -k auto.master replies with:
> /net -hosts
> so the nis is setup ok
> amd worked with this in the past
>
> looking at the autofs script:
>
> yellow page section:
> (my comments in **** ***** )
>
>
> if [ -e /usr/bin/ypcat ] && [ `ypcat -k auto.master 2>/dev/null | wc -l'
> - -gt 0 ]
> **** true ****
> then
> ypcat -k auto.master | (
> while read dir map options
>
> **** $dir = /net ******
> **** $map = -hosts *****
> **** $options = nothing *****
>
> do
> if [ ! -z "$dir" -a ! -z "$map" \
> -a x`echo "$map" | cut -c1` != 'x-' ]
>
> **** 1st 2 conditions true ******
> **** 3rd condition false *******
> **** 3rd condition mandates $map not start with a dash (-) *****
> **** so our nis auto.master is not supported by this redhat ****
> **** this is OSF (Digital UNIX V4.0D (Rev. 878) ) *****
> **** ?????? really not supported ???????????????? ********
>
> then
> map=`echo "$map" | sed -e 's/^auto_/auto./'`
>
> **** this renames auto_master to auto.master ****
> **** looks like some other NIS standard *****
>
> if echo $options | grep -- '-t' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> mountoptions="--timeout $(echo $options | \
> sed 's/^.*-t\(imeout\)*[
> \t]*\([0-9][0-9]*\).*$/\2/g')"
> fi
> options=`echo "$options" | sed -e '
> s/--*t\(imeout\)*[ \t]*[0-9][0-9]*//g
> s/\(^\|[ \t]\)-/\1/g'`
> echo "/usr/sbin/automount $mountoptions $dir yp $map
> $options $localoptions"
>
> **** tried /usr/sbin/automount /net yp -hosts *****
> **** nothing happens *****
>
> fi
> done
> )
> fi
> }
>
> plus more script stuff, but automount never gets invoked for yp with
> this script
>
> Is it true then that our NIS implementation is not supported by
> autofs and that amd is our only option?
> is amd supported by fermi rh 5.2.1?
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
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