Paul Smith wrote: > Eric B. writes: >> My problem, however, is that once my ldap server is back up, autofs >> never seems to retry to connect to it, so all my /home mounts fail. >> Basically, it means I have to make sure that my LDAP server is never >> down while another server is rebooting. > > [[Sorry for the missing threading headers--I'm switching accounts right > now]] > > This is related to a larger issue, I think: is there any effort anywhere > to make autofs dbus/NetworkManager aware? I've ranted elsewhere about > the poor design of NM, which basically requires every other network > service, even those that have existed for tens of years before Linux > itself, to be modified to conform to NM's idea of how dynamic network > configuration should work. However no one seems to care and at this > point it seems like autofs is about the only commonly-used facility that > doesn't integrate with NM. Even ypbind (NIS) has been modified to > support NM. > > Today on my Ubuntu systems the only thing that doesn't work properly is > autofs: when my system comes up and services are started, they all wait > for the network interface to come up and to be notified by NM that the > interface is available, before going further. > > All, that is, except autofs: the OP above only has this problem if his > LDAP server happens to be down when he reboots, but on Ubuntu systems > (at least) where automount maps are distributed by NIS, I have this > problem every single time I boot my system. Because NIS is not > available/ready when autofs comes up, the retrieval of the automount > maps from NIS fails, so when autofs comes up it has no distributed maps. > > I have to, by hand, restart autofs so it can see the maps. > > What would be nice is if autofs could be listening for some kind of > "network directory services (re)started" dbus message or something, that > could be sent by LDAP, NIS, and whatever else, and which would cause > autofs to reread its configuration. Today the autofs configuration from > LDAP/NIS is done via the init script so that's a complication... > > What can be done about this? Anyone have any ideas on how to make this > work better?
So where is the documentation for the interfaces you mention? Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
