I'm using autofs4 (autofs-4.0.0pre10) to mount a number of NFS mounts using a NIS map on machines running a RedHat based 2.4.7-10 kernel.
Occasionally trying to access a mount point (that has been working fine) gives e.g: # cd /net/server1 cd: /net/server1: Permission denied This mount point never unmounts - even with sending SIGUSR1 to automount The only way I can unmount the file system is by explicitly using umount i.e. umount /net/server1 works OK and subsequent access to /net/server1 mounts the remote file system OK The remote "servers' in question tend to be other Linux workstations, that I _think_ have crashed (or been rebooted) while being mounted by the clients ... Is there anything I can do to fix this? In the meantime, I'm thinking of having a simple script that attempts to umount everything under the automount mount point every few minutes or so (by looking for these mounts in mtab) - is this likely to cause problems/confusion with automount? Thanks James Pearson
