Problem getting automount started
 

Hi all,

I have a problem with the automount service, whenever i am trying to start it, it fails.

[ root@removed etc]# service autofs start
Starting automount:
failed to load map: "/usr/sbin/automount --timeout` /misc file /etc/auto.misc"
failed to load map: "/usr/sbin/automount --timeout600 /au[FAILED]/etc/auto.indirect rsize2768,wsize2768,tcp"

I don't understand what could be the problem.
The files envolve the automount proccess look fine.

[ root@removed etc]# service autofs start
Starting automount:
failed to load map: "/usr/sbin/automount --timeout` /misc file /etc/auto.misc"
failed to load map: "/usr/sbin/automount --timeout600 /au[FAILED]/etc/auto.indirect rsize2768,wsize2768,tcp"
[ root@removed etc]# cat /etc/auto.master
# $Id: auto.master.nis,v 1.9 2006/06/22 16:47:21 brilong Exp $
# Format of this file:
# mountpoint map options
# For details of the format look at autofs(8).
#
# NOTE: touch /etc/auto.master.nooverwrite if you do not want
# RPM upgrades of ecs-autofs-files overwriting auto.master
/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout`
/auto /etc/auto.indirect rsize2768,wsize2768,tcp
#/users yp:auto_home rw,hard,intr,rsize2768,wsize2768,tcp

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[ root@removed etc]# cat /etc/auto.master
# $Id: auto.master.nis,v 1.9 2006/06/22 16:47:21 brilong Exp $
# Format of this file:
# mountpoint map options
# For details of the format look at autofs(8).
#
# NOTE: touch /etc/auto.master.nooverwrite if you do not want
# RPM upgrades of ecs-autofs-files overwriting auto.master
/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout`
/auto /etc/auto.indirect rsize2768,wsize2768,tcp
#/users yp:auto_home rw,hard,intr,rsize2768,wsize2768,tcp
[ email@removed etc]# cat /etc/auto.misc
# $Id: auto.misc,v 1.3 2005/03/15 18:02:13 brilong Exp $
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage

#kernel -ro,soft,intr ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux
cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom
cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom

# the following entries are samples to pique your imagination
#floppy -fstype=ext2 :/dev/fd0
#e2floppy -fstype=ext2 :/dev/fd0
#jaz -fstype=ext2 :/dev/sdc1

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[ root@removed etc]# cat /etc/sysconfig/autofs
# Define custom options in /etc/sysconfig/autofs
# Use LOCALOPTIONS for defining variables, e.g. OSREL
# Use LDAPAUTOMASTER to define an alternative ldap master map
# Define UNDERSCORETODOT as 1 to convert
# auto_home to auto.home and auto_mnt to auto.mnt
# Mount options, e.g. rsize=8192, should go in auto.master or
# the auto_* map entry for a specific mount point
#
LOCALOPTIONS=""
LDAPAUTOMASTER=""
# UNDERSCORETODOT changes auto_home to auto.home and auto_mnt to auto.mnt
UNDERSCORETODOT=1
DISABLE_DIRECT=1
# Only source one master map if set to 1. This would mimic Sun behaviour.
# The default is 0 to maintain backwards compatibility.
ONE_AUTO_MASTER=0
# List of directories to be ghosted, separated by white space.
GHOSTDIRS=""
DAEMONOPTIONS="--timeout600"

Someone has an idea??

Thanks!!!!

Hey There,

The first thing that comes to mind, looking at auto.master is perhaps trying indirect maps instead of direct maps, changing

to

Direct mapping, I believe, should look like this:

Give that a shot. If it doesn't work out, can you post the contents of the .misc .indirect files?

Another simple way to get around this would be to just have

as an entry in auto.master and move your two mount definitions into auto.misc and auto.indirect (removing the / )

Best wishes,

Mike

Hi,

Thanks for the replay!

1. I tried to edit the .nmaster file as you wrote - didn't worked..

BTW, tried to write the auto.master this way :

/misc YourMountOptions /etc/auto.misc
/auto YourMountOptions /etc/auto.indirect

and it didn't worked.

2. I found the problem the auto.indirect file was bad writen.
It was an old file that the machine got from a nis server..


Any way thsnks..:)

Cool,

Glad to hear that it's all working well now :)

, Mike