automount

[Randy_9]

Are these WARNINGS in syslog a problem that needs to be addressed? Are the entries regarding "mnttab" normal?.
Just wondering if I need to correct something here.
Thanks,

Randy

[Randy_9]

Opps, here are the syslog entries:
Aug 12 13:04:52 athens automount[784]: WARNING: "bg" ignored for ctsh2 in auto.net
Aug 12 13:04:52 athens automount[784]: WARNING: "bg" ignored for ctsh2 in auto.net
Aug 12 13:10:08 athens automount[784]: fork a child process to delete an entry from /etc/mnttab
Aug 12 13:10:08 athens automount[784]: fork a child process to delete an entry from /etc/mnttab

Randy

[Cheryl Griffin · Accepted solution]

Automount is trying to update the /etc/mnttab but it is busy. Do the message repeat or have they ceased? It may be just a temporary thing so the messages are just informational.

[Randy_9]

Cheryl,

The "mnttab" messages have stopped, but the
BG WARNINGS are constant for the NIS supplied maps. Here is an entry from the maps:

# ypcat -k auto.net | grep csh*
certsvcspre -rw,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,bg,intr maverick:/certsvcspre

Why does the system continually bark about it?

Thanks
Randy

[Cheryl Griffin]

Randy,
This error matches this format:

WARNING: option "ignored for" key in mapname
which means that automount detected an unknown mount option. Correct the entry in the appropriate map.

This entry seems to be the problem
certsvcspre -rw,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,bg,intr maverick:/certsvcspre
bg = background and this option is not necessary on HP-UX, whereas you would use that option on Solaris.

If you remove bg, the messages will cease.

I'm double checking that there is no other patch that does allow bg but from what I find so far, there's no need for it.