Automounter problem

[Sachin Patel]

Hi All,

We have a nis/automounter for home directory. Which works fine.

We have add new nfs server and add it's home in to nis auto.direct map and restart the automounter on all production system which works fine.
After couple week we had a problem and we move all /home which is on vg01. to vg09 with same name and reboot the system.
i.e /dev/vg01/lvol1 /home now become /dev/vg09/lvol1 /home.

Automounter should pick up that mount automatic right? but it didn't. We kill automounter and restart it it works for few servers and didn't work for other.
Finally we had to reboot three client system which happens to be production server.

If I reboot this new nfs server system now without changing vg's then none of the client has problem.

Why is this happen?

Is there a fix for it?

Thanks
Sachin

[Sajid_1]

hello,

I think if you kill/restart the rpc.statd and rpc.lockd, the problem will be solved. The system when started the daemons was queried to a file system which configured as an automount FS, but if change happens to it you might need to restart the daemons and will look at the new connections.

HTH

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Sajid,
But We do not have problem if I do not change vg's

Sachin

[Sajid_1]

hi again,

If I misunderstood the question, then sorry!

What you are saying is right. IF you dont' make any changes to the VG configuration then things will work without problem. But when you make changes to the VG which was configured as the automount FSs, then you might need to restart the rpc daemons too.

rgds,