if your system, LAN hangs waiting for a server, use -intr,soft,timeout=60
Q: When running some commands, it hangs and does not return to command prompt: ( df, sync, ls /, etc...
A: you probably have a mounted server that went down - either use soft mounts and timeout - or - - restart your NFS and automount daemon
Q. Stale mount points
A. donno... try shutting down nfs, automounters, syslogs, and finally reboot kill the users mounting the directory ( tell them first before killing their jobs )
Q. Slow replies
A. A server is timing out and than continuing thru the list of mounted and active servers
Q. Umounted a "busy" filesystem...
A. ?? Autofs does not remount/reload active partitons even after stopping autofs ?? ( says automount failed ) autofs start -- or -- autofs reload
Q. /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs for redhat 4.2 - autofs has some temp directory creation problems ?? -- forgot which version