"Ian Kent" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Eric B. wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using Autofs and LDAP for mounting my home directories via nfs.
>> In general, everything seems to work fine. However, I have one small
>> problem.
>>
>> If I reboot my server using autofs while my LDAP server is down, I
>> get the following error message in my logs: automount[3358]:
>> bind_ldap_anonymous: lookup(ldap): Unable to bind to the LDAP server:
>> (default), error Can't contact LDAP server
>>
>> which is understandable, since my ldap server is temporarily down.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I figure there must be something in the configuration file that would
>> allow me to tweak this to indicate to autofs to recheck the ldap
>> server periodically to see if it has come back up, but can't seem to
>> find anything.
>
> Yeah, there are problems in that area.
>
> What does your nsswitch.conf have for the "automount:" entry?
> Is your master map also located on the LDAP server?
> Does sending a HUP signal to automount make things work again when the
> server is back?
nsswitch.conf:
automount: files ldap
Restarting autofs will make things work again. Similarly, issuing a HUP
signal will make things work again once the server is back online.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Eric
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