SUMMARY: automount question

From: Viet.Q.Hoang@att.com
Date: Sat Jun 10 1995 - 10:20:13 CDT


Here's my original post:

>We've been using a direct automount map to make various packages
>installed on a server available to clients. The mount point
>and the real directory is the same on the server.
>
>Example: on the server we have /opt/SUNWspro, our direct automount
>map has the "/opt/SUNWspro -ro,hard server:&" entry.
>
>This has been working fine until recently when somehow the server
>doesn't like it anymore and keep giving us this error message:
>
>Mount of /opt/SUNWspro on /opt/SUNWspro would result in deadlock, aborted.
>
>This means we can't get to anything in that directory either on the
>server or on the clients. What could have changed to cause this
>to happen? We could move the stuff to have the mount points different
>from the real path but we're concerned that something else is the real
>problem.
>
>Both server & client machines run Solaris 2.3.

The consensus seems to be that what I was doing should not work, I don't
know how it worked for us. To keep the paths the same, I now use a
local auto_master on the server with -null option to override the NIS maps.
The auto_master looks like this:

/opt/SUNWspro -null
more or those overrides
+auto_master

My thanks to Peter Bestel, Leonard Sitongia, Stephen Schaefer, John Wilder,
Jerry Lugert, Anchi Zhang, Kevin Sheehan and Ann Rautenbach for helping
me out on this.

-- 

Viet Hoang AT&T, GITS Denver viet.q.hoang@att.com



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