auto_home hangs

[Arnold_14]

I have a problem with auto_home. When oracle user logs in, the system should do auto_home from a different box. In my case, the system hangs and the oracle user never gets the $ prompt after all the copyright stuff.

On local machine:
local1# df -n /home
/home (auto_home ) :

/etc/auto_home:
oracle aa.aa.aa.aa:/p102/home/&

On remote machine:
/etc/exports
/p102 -root=xx.xx.xx.xx

Help, thanks
Arnold

[Sundar_7]

Try to manually mount aa.aa.aa.aa:/p102/home/oracle to /mnt (or any other directory) and see if it works.

# showmount -e

Also post the above output and make sure you have automouter or autofs running

# ps -ef | grep auto

[Marvin Strong]

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/5990-7199/5990-7199_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/5990-7199/00/00/24-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/5990-7199/00/00/24-toc.html&searchterms=auto_home&queryid=20040409-142209

That document might help you with what you are trying to accomplish.

[Victor Fridyev]

Try to define HISTFILE=/tmp/$LOGNAME.hst

Sometimes HISTFILE on NFS cause problems

Regards

[Arnold_14]

Hmm this is odd. If I do 'cd /home/oracle' manually, it's mounted fine, no problem.

If I login with that user, the system hangs after the copyright stuff. I check the /etc/profile, no problem.

I guess, my question is, what comes after /etc/profile. It's probably the culprit that runs forever so I cannot see the $ prompt

Thanks
-a

[KapilRaj]

Are you missing -access = xx.xx.xx.xx in the remote machine ?

Regds,

Kaps