can't see my automounted directory

[joseph wholey]

can't see my automounted filesystem. Here are my relevant files and setup. I set up the files then started autofs with "service autofs start". It succeeds, as noted in the log, but I expect to be able to see the directory "jwholey" under /u. /u is crated and has permissions of 755.

auto.master:
#
# $Id: auto.master,v 1.3 2003/09/29 08:22:35 raven Exp $
#
# Sample auto.master file
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# For details of the format look at autofs(5).
#/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60
#/misc /etc/auto.misc
#/net /etc/auto.net
/u /etc/auto.u

auto.u
jwholey pw0103e0:/myhome:&

ls -la | grep u
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar 31 15:28 u

/var/log/messages:
Mar 31 15:28:08 rhel012 autofs: automount startup succeeded

Any ideas? thx.

[Stuart Browne]

It's an auto-mount. It won't mount until it's used.

So try doing a 'cd' or something of '/u/myhome', then you should see it.

If you want it to mount when the system starts up, use '/etc/fstab' instead, and make it a permenant mount point.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Reload the service

service autofs reload

And as indicated abuve, do:

cd /u/jwholey

[joseph wholey]

I did reload as suggested... nothing.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Try configuring our auto.u like this:

auto.u
* -rw,soft pw0103e0:/myhome/&

Also, the output of:

showmount -e pw0103e0

will help