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8. Automounter FAQs

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


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