> We're using NIS with autofs across IRIX, RHEL4, RHEL5, Gentoo, Debian, > SLES9/10 (IA64), and OSX (10.4/.5) systems. Under RHEL5 it seems > sometimes there is a delay in mounting a directory such that home > directories don't appear for a user upon login and the user is asked > to login with a / home directory. Sometimes even trying for the 2nd > time doesn't help. This also happens if the user logs in, has a shell > open (konsole or gnome-terminal), then after a while tries to open > another term. This happens if the user opens a new term within 10 > seconds of opening the other term or after 5 mins, so I don't think > it's an issue of the automount timing out and unmounting itself and > then trying to remount. Furthermore, we don't see this problem with > any of the other aforementioned OSs. Any idea on what changes have > caused this behavior in RHEL5 vs RHEL4? >
We started seeing problems like this after upgrading to RHEL 5.1 from 5.0. Apparently there's an active bugzilla and a fix in the works, but as a workaround, we found that using direct automount maps, ie /- /etc/auto.direct --timeout=300 in /etc/auto.master rather than /auto /etc/auto.direct --timeout=300 seems to make the problem go away. I guess you could get the same thing to work in your NIS maps. -Peter Ruprecht _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
