Re: [TCLUG:15357] automount + yp == trouble

[Lynette Bellini <lynette@software.umn.edu>]

> > I am attemping to integrate a couple of SuSE linux boxes (6.3) into a
> > cluster of machines which interoperate with yp maps and utilize
> > automount.
> > 
> > ypcat auto.home returns the appropriate information. portmap is in
> > hosts.allow. Here are my auto.* files:
> > 
> > auto.master
> > /home   /etc/auto.home
> > 
> > auto.home
> > +auto.home
> > cd              -fstype=iso9660,ro      :/dev/cdrom
> > floppy          -fstype=auto            :/dev/fd0
> > 
> > /etc/rc.d/autofs status returns the following:
> > 
> > Checking for service autofs: OK
> > Configured Mount Points:
> > - ------------------------
> > automount -t 300 /home file /etc/auto.home
> > automount -t 300 /home yp auto.home nobrowse
> > 
> > Active Mount Points:
> > - --------------------
> > automount -t 300 /home file /etc/auto.home
> > 
> > (I believe there should be "yp" in there instead of/in addition to
> > "file".)
> > 
> > /var/log/messages has only:
> > Mar 30 11:52:15 sevengill automount[155]: attempting to mount entry /home/t
     obkin
> > Mar 30 11:52:15 sevengill automount[289]: lookup(file): looking up tobkin
> > Mar 30 11:52:15 sevengill automount[289]: lookup(file): lookup for tobkin f
     ailed
> > 
> > for errors. I believe this means that the automounter is not seeing
> > the yp auto.home map. I have also tried
> > 
> > auto.master
> > /home  auto.home
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me what magic I'm missing?
> > 
> 
> If you do a 
> ypcat -k auto.home | grep tobkin
> does it show anything?

sevengill /> ypcat -k auto.home | grep tobkin
tobkin moby:/export/newhome/tobkin  

Yp works. Automount works. The two together do not.

Lynette Bellini
Systems Administrator
University of Minnesota