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From: kenc@madmax.Viewlogic.COM (Kenstir)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Automounter on Ultrix 4.0
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.150111@madmax.Viewlogic.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 91 20:01:11 GMT
References: <1989@raybed2.msd.ray.com> <3320@dali> <LIBOVE.91Jan16173842@libove.det.dec.com>
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In article <LIBOVE.91Jan16173842@libove.det.dec.com>,
libove@libove.det.dec.com (Jay Vassos-Libove) writes:
> I ... have found that problems only arise when the daemon
> is repeatedly killed off and restarted.

This is not true.  There is a bug report (for 4.0 only!) and the
cause is any NFS error, timeout, etc.  What has been stated before
is true; you must redirect stderr to somewhere or else NFS errors
will cause the automounter to hang.

	/usr/etc/automount 2> /dev/console

Solves the problem.

--
Kenneth H. Cox
Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
kenc@viewlogic.com
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