Summary: Automounter Insight Needed

From: Eddy Fafard (eddy@slimepuppy.apple.com)
Date: Fri Mar 26 1999 - 12:02:15 CST


Sorry for the late summary but.....
Thanks to david Evans who gave me many ideas but still no real conclusion
to the problem. The vendor fixed there tool so it does not look at /net
any more so I am up an running...

Original Message:

Chasing a LSF (load sharing problem) I noticed some wierdness about
auotmounter.
When ever a user who has a home directory on local machine and if a
submitted job
would get exacuted there it would fail with all sorts of errors. After
many testcases
and thererys we figured out LSF in this scenario was seeting its CWD to
/net/hostname/home/
username/directory and this is the cause of the problem. On more
invesigation I noticed
if I cd /net/hostname/home/username and do a pwd and echo $cwd they return
/home/username but as
soon as I go down one directory /net/hostname/home/username/scripts I get
the following:

eddy slimepuppy [58] pwd
pwd: cannot determine current directory!
eddy slimepuppy [59] echo $cwd
/home/eddy/scripts

Why does pwd know /net/hostname/home/username but as soon as I go down it
gets squirly. I would
figure it would break at /net/hostname/home/username.

This scenario is 2.6 but on 2.5.1 I get completely different errors. I
can cd
/net/hostname/home/username and pwd and $cwd returns
/net/hostname/home/username and if I do a ls
I get the following
/scan: No such file or directory
./nsmail: No such file or directory

and I cant cd down a directory I get the following
eddy scintilla [36] cd scan
scan: No such file or directory.
eddy scintilla [37]

Any help/insight would be greatly appreciated....
auto.master :
/home auto.home -rw,intr,nobrowse
/net -hosts -nosuid
/- /etc/auto_direct -ro,intr

auto.home:
eddy -rw,intr slimepuppy:/usr/export/home/eddy

Thanks In advance
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 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case - coincidence?? ... I think not !

 "I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar!"

 "When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane."



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