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

[Eric Estabrooks <eric@urbanrage.com>]

Lynette Bellini wrote:

> > odd.. maybe suse is messed up.. ypcat auto.home works properly, and does
>
> ypcat auto.home works fine.
>
> > ps aux | grep auto
> > return anything?
>
> sevengill /# ps -agux | grep autom
> root      8269  0.0  0.6  1228  400 pts/0    S    16:59   0:00 grep autom
>
> I started out setting everything up like I do on my standard solaris
> install... it didn't work, so I started asking questions. I've changed
> a few things, but things have basically gotten worse instead of better
> (at first, automountd was starting, with file auto_home, but not yp).
>
> I'm asking the same question on the SuSE list and hoping that if this
> is a SuSe-specific problem, that will become obvious.
>
> If you have any more ideas, I'd sure like to hear them.

Under redhat if the file /etc/auto.master exists autofs and amd won't be
fired with yp only files.  Check you rc script that starts your auto stuff to
see how it behaves.

Eric