Well, the problem seems to have corrected itself without my help.
I suspect that someone in our network support area has been busy...
Suggestions rec'd from respondants and COMPAQ mostly were
to shutdown and restart the automount daemon. If the problem
recurs I might just try that.
--CHRis
Chris H. Ruhnke
Mid-Range Technical Services
IBM Global Services
St. Louis, MO
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Original message:
> Config: Two AS8200 cluster, TU 4.0G, ASE 1.6
>
> Situation: Systems have been up since early
> September. I have hundreds of
> automounted directories most of
> which are on the ASE disk services but
> there are about 200 directories on
> other nodes. Up 'till now all
> automounts have been successful.
>
> Problem: This week automounters on BOTH the cluster
> nodes have begun failing to mount the
> directories on one particular node.
> Every other automounted directory is successful.
> I have "kill -hup"ed each automountd process
> on both systems to re-initialize them. I can
> ping the target node fine. I can even manually
> mount the directories one at a time and access
> all the files that are supposed to be there.
>
> Question: Why would manual mounts succeed when
> automounts fail? Of course, neither set
> of nodes has been changed in the last week --
> supposedly!
>
Received on Wed Oct 18 2000 - 14:22:17 NZDT