hi, i have a setup including NIS, NFS and AutoFS. this setup works on all computers but one: on this one computer, it claims to have successfully mounted the autofs, but if i were to access a mount it claims "no such file or directory" for example, if auto.home is mounted on /home, then cd /home/<user name> will fail on this computer it works on the rest of the computers in the network. i have made sure the /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/services and /etc/auto.home and /etc/auto.master are properly configured, and just in case have attempted to copy them over from a working machine. no errors found in dmesg. nothing i can think of. i've tried running truss against automountd, and it gets my attempts to cd, but does not look at the map (say, auto.home) before failing. (for comparison, on a working machine it does look at auto.home) i'm out of ideas. anyone have better ones?
>i've tried running truss against automountd, and it gets my attempts to cd
>no output when i access an automount dir
So automounter is clearly running and doing something, but the debug info doesn't end up in your debug log file ? You should look around if the debug output ends up elsewhere, e.g. on the console or in another log file.
Without the debug info, it will be very difficult to determine the cause of your problems, so look around. You should be getting it somewhere.
truss showed it was not writing anything. oddly enough it now works, though i have no idea why. (all of it, the debug output, the automounting, everything) this is bad, as if this returns, i have no idea how to deal with it.
