On Wed October 19 2005 10:09 am, Stuart Sears wrote: > Claude Jones wrote: > > Failed mounts: > > .directory Program Lookup Failure 1 Time(s) > > misc Mount Failure 1 Time(s) > > net Mount Failure 1 Time(s) > > looks like autofs trouble to me > are you using the system autmounter? > The service is on - I'm not sure if I'm 'using' it or not. I was waiting to reply till I researched this some more. There's two areas where I thought I 'might' be using it - I have the NTFS kernel-module installed so I can read my NTFS drive; I frequently connect/disconnect flash drives and an external USB fat formatted 80gb drive - are these two file systems being automounted by autofs? > if not, try > chkconfig autofs off > service autofs stop > > and see if the logs still have those messages in them the next day > If I turn autofs off, I'm trying to understand what this might imply for accessing the above mentioned file systems... -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
