On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 10:34 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Fabian Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello! > > > > We are using autofs in order to mount the user's home drive via NFS after a > > successfull login authenticated by ldap. > > > > /etc/auto.master looks like this: > > > > # AUOTOFS-MAPPING > > /home/schueler /etc/auto.schueler > > /home/lehrer /etc/auto.lehrer > > /home/maerkte /etc/auto.maerkte > > > > /etc/auto.schueler has the following content (the same also applies for the > > other files): > > > > * -fstype=nfs,rw,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid,exec,acl > > server.domain.de:/home/schueler/& > > > > Generally speaking this setup works like a charm but from time to time we > > encounter the following messages in syslog: > > > > Sep 24 16:46:57 server mountd[8818]: authenticated mount request from > > client.domain.de:559 for /home/schueler/.directory (/home/schueler) > > Sep 24 16:46:57 server mountd[8818]: can't stat exported > > dir /home/schueler/.directory: No such file or directory > > > > Our investigations show that these messages are probably to be created > > whenever a user tries to access /home/schueler by using Konqueror or > > Nautilus. The file .directory doesn't exist, however, and that's why these > > messages appaer. Normalley, this wouldn't be a severe problem but the > > entire is completely slowed down so that another kind of error occurs: > > > > Sep 24 16:47:00 server mountd[8818]: refused mount request from > > client.domain.de for /home/schueler/.directory (/home/schueler): illegal > > port 48337 > > > > Does anybody know this issue and could provide any hints how to solve it? > > Negative lookup caching will help this. I'm not sure whether/when > that went into the kernel. Ian?
There was a report of the patch causing a kernel panic which I've still not been able to duplicate. I need to return to this real soon. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
