Automounter on Ultrix 4.0

[Kenstir]

In article <LIBOVE.91Jan16173842 at libove.det.dec.com>,
libove at libove.det.dec.com (Jay Vassos-Libove) writes:
> I ... have found that problems only arise when the daemon
> is repeatedly killed off and restarted.

This is not true.  There is a bug report (for 4.0 only!) and the
cause is any NFS error, timeout, etc.  What has been stated before
is true; you must redirect stderr to somewhere or else NFS errors
will cause the automounter to hang.

	/usr/etc/automount 2> /dev/console

Solves the problem.

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Kenneth H. Cox
Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
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