[Eug-lug] autofs continuously mount/unmount share

[Garl Grigsby]

Alan wrote:
> On Mon, February 25, 2008 2:34 pm, Garl Grigsby wrote:
>   
>> I have office where we have two servers. Server 1 is a CentOS 4.6 x86_64
>> system. Server 2 is a CentOS 4.6 x86 system. Server 1 hosts a number of
>> shares that are mounted via autofs. Here is a piece of the auto.share
>> file from server 2 relating to my problem:
>>
>> homes           -fstype=nfs             192.168.1.10:/share/homes
>>
>> The problem I am seeing is that server 2 seems to mount and umount this
>> share every minute or so as shown by the log excerpt below.
>>     
>
> The default for inactivity on automount is, if I recall rightly, 60 seconds.
> Can you add a "--timeout=600" to your homes line and see what happens?
>
>   
Alan,
    Thanks. I think you got me close enough. The default, according to 
he lying man page is supposed to be 5 mins. Obviously not. So then I 
checked sysconfig/autofs. A 60 second default timeout.. Sigh. Something 
so friggin stupid... How did I miss that?!?!?

Garl