Hello, In my LAN I have a server in which all the /home for users reside. The /home is shared via NFS. The server also as a NIS server. Other machines in the LAN mount the /home from the server, using automount. Here is /etc/auto.master: /home /etc/auto.home and /etc/auto.home: * -rw,intr,soft,timeo=300,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 server1:/home/& Yesterday, on a desktop that I use, I noticed a high disk activity on the machine. Checking out the /var/log/messages, I found something like the following repeated over and over again until the log file got big (~10 MB): ... Jan 25 08:23:08 desktop1 automount[4153]: failed to mount /home/tls Jan 25 08:23:08 desktop1 automount[4159]: >> mount: server1:/home/.directory failed, reason given by server: Permission denied Jan 25 08:23:08 desktop1 automount[4159]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure server1:/home/.directory on /home/.directory Jan 25 08:23:08 desktop1 automount[4159]: failed to mount /home/.directory Jan 25 08:23:08 desktop1 automount[4161]: >> mount: server1:/home/tls failed, reason given by server: Permission denied Jan 25 08:23:08 desktop1 automount[4161]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure server1:/home/tls on /home/tls Jan 25 08:23:08 desktop1 automount[4161]: failed to mount /home/tls Jan 25 08:23:08 desktop1 automount[4158]: >> mount: server1:/home/--timeout=60 failed, reason given by server: Permission denied Jan 25 08:23:08 desktop1 automount[4158]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure server1:/home/--timeout=60 on /home/--timeout=60 Jan 25 08:23:08 desktop1 automount[4158]: failed to mount /home/--timeout=60 ... So correspondingly on the server side, I got something like: ... Jan 25 08:23:08 server1 rpc.mountd: refused mount request from desktop1.localdomain for /home/.directory (/home): illegal port 35326 Jan 25 08:23:08 server1 rpc.mountd: refused mount request from desktop1.localdomain for /home/tls (/home): illegal port 35327 Jan 25 08:23:08 server1 rpc.mountd: refused mount request from desktop1.localdomain for /home/--timeout=60 (/home): illegal port 35328 Jan 25 08:23:08 server1 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from desktop1.localdomain:902 for /home/.directory (/home) Jan 25 08:23:08 server1 rpc.mountd: can't stat exported dir /home/.directory: No such file or directory Jan 25 08:23:08 server1 rpc.mountd: refused mount request from desktop1.localdomain for /home/--timeout=60 (/home): illegal port 35329 ... and also: ... Jan 25 08:23:08 server1 rpc.mountd: can't stat exported dir /home/.directory: No such file or directory Jan 25 08:23:08 server1 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from desktop1.localdomain:804 for /home/--timeout=60 (/home) Jan 25 08:23:08 server1 rpc.mountd: can't stat exported dir /home/--timeout=60: No such file or directory Jan 25 08:23:09 server1 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from desktop1.localdomain:816 for /home/tls (/home) Jan 25 08:23:09 server1 rpc.mountd: can't stat exported dir /home/tls: No such file or directory ... which makes sense because those directories dont exist. When that happens, I tried to find the process which might cause it, but I could not find anything odd. I closed all running application and basically and it was still happening until I finally rebooted the desktop. Yesterday was the second time something like that happened. The first time it happened I decided that it probably was just a fluke of something random went wrong. But since it happened more than once, I got really curious. So any help on figuring this out will be appreciated. Thanks in advance RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/M/MU/P/S d-(++) s: a-- C++(+++) UL++++ P-- L+++>++++ E- W+++ N+ o? K- w--- !O M- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X R- tv+ b++>+++ DI D(+) G e++>++++ h+(*) r++ y->++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
