Hi all, In a previous post, I have reported that the autofs system dosen't work reliably. I think now I know why: the daemon automount dies misteriously some time after boot. Just after boot, if I lauch ps aux, I see /usr/sbin/automount listed but later on (may be several miutes), ps wouldn't list this daemon. As a result, if automount is involked shortly after boot, it works. Further, if automount dies before it has unmounted the directory, it remains mounted. Therefore autofs sometime seem to works but it is not. The same thing happens with kerneld. In fact keneld seems to dies immediately adter being started. Or may be it has never started since I never see it in the output of ps aux. But I see the message "starting kerneld" at boot time so I presume it has started. As a result, when I try to mount a DOS disquette, I get the message that the file type vfat is not supported by the kernel. This is true but the module vfat.o is there and kerneld should automatically load it into the kernel. So I load the module manually by insmod and it works. By restarting kerneld through /etc/init.d/kerneld, it works "almost". What happens is that the subsequent mount command hangs. But after I kill it I see that the module vfat has been loaded and a second mount command works properly. I also have a problem with smail which may be daemon related. I have reported that I can't configure smail: At the end of the setup, sending a test message results in a failure: smail failed 10/ . Now I tried a different setup. Instead of asking the configuration program to "Generate a line in /etc/inetd.conf" to start a smail session For every remote-connections, I ask it to start the smail daemon at boot time. Then I get the message
/etc/init.d/smail: line 40: 780 Bus error (core dumped) start-st op-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- $FLAGS But the configuration program still reports "Configuration installed." and then asking me to send a test message. Obviously, it desen't work: I get smail failed 138/ I woukld appreciate any help to solve these problems. I may be able to live without autofs (permanent mount at boot) or keneld (load all modules at boot) but the mail service is very important these days. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PHAM Dinh Tuan | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laboratoire de Modelisation et Calcul | Tel: +33 4 76 51 44 23 BP 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex (France) | Fax: +33 4 76 63 12 63 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]