AIX Automounter

[Douglas Lee Schales]

In article <3478 at d75.UUCP> john at johnmad.Berkeley.EDU writes:
   I wrote:
   >Does anyone know how to start the automounter automatically under AIX 3.1
   >on the RS?  SMIT doesn't appear to be able to do this.  Just starts it
   >for current boot.  I tried sticking it at the end of /etc/rc.nfs, but it
   >doesn't work.  After the machine is up, shelling /etc/rc.nfs starts it.
   >'biod's exist before the second shell'ing of /etc/rc.nfs, so I know that
   >/etc/rc.nfs is being exec'd during boot (also echo'd msg right before
   >executing /usr/etc/automount).

   This should work. That is the way I jump start my automounter.  I presume
   that when you do it at the command line it works correctly?

Yes, starting it from the command line "worked" (more in a sec).  Someone said
they started it at the end of rc.tcpip and it worked.  This also "worked"
though it doesn't make any sense.  *BUT* the thing keeps crashing on me
with a segmentation violation.  This occurs whether I start it manually or
automatically at boot time.  It runs fine for some amount of time, then
just crashes.  Restarting it doesn't fix the problem.  Machine has to be
rebooted.  It is mounting filesystems from Sun 330's and 390's running
SunOS 4.1.  It has stayed up for as little as 3 hours, up to 15 hours.
Right now, I'm watching it trying to see if I can see at what point it
crashes.  Mount from a specific machine, unmounting an idle directory, etc.

Command line:

/usr/etc/automount /user /etc/userhome /n -hosts -rw,intr,rsize=1024,wsize=1024

/etc/userhome has the format:

username	mtoptions	host:pathname

Any ideas anyone?

Doug.
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Douglas Lee Schales
schales at cs.tamu.edu
Texas A&M University
Dept. of Computer Science