==> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:21:59 -0400, "William Prochazka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
William> We use LDAP to store all of our map data which seems to be working very well William> (all FC6 so autofs v5.0.1 RC3). First off, we found out the hardway that William> when autofs is restarted (like as part of a cron job) and a local autofs William> filesystem is in use (direct map) ... kernel panic. The restarting was Did you report this bug? If not, please do: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ William> originally so we could push new maps and clients we get the maps nightly. William> After the kernel panic fiasco, I nticed the reload option (should be much William> safer since in our enviornment it would almost always only be adding new William> maps). Sounds good, but it does not work. Reload fails as it cannot start Reload, at least in the past, was used to detect added or removed mount points listed in /etc/auto.master. William> TLS, so it loads a null map and kills all unused daemons. I have no idea William> why it cannot start TLS since the service has no issues when starting and I William> can see it querying ldap for the auto.master and the mount ou. So this William> leads to a few questions: William> 1. Does autofs only use the /etc/openldap/ldap.conf file, or does the reload William> function use the /etc/ldap.conf file I think that is a hold over for legacy William> applications) Autofs uses /etc/openldap/ldap.conf William> 2. Is there a good way to debug what exactly is failing with the reload? (I William> have logging set to debug but that give little useful info. Do you have daemon.* being logged somewhere? See http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer for a guide to gathering debug information. William> 3. What is the best way to have clients poll for updates to the autofs William> maps? Autofs does this on its own. It should detect map updates when performing mounts, so you can get rid of your cron jobs. -Jeff _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
