Re: New Sarge NFS Server Unexporting after certain interval?

From: Bill Benedetto (bbenedetto_at_goodyear.com)
Date: 07/30/03

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    >>> Ian Melnick writes:

      Ian> Just dist-upgrade'd and now have a new problem. I have a typical setup
      Ian> where one computer is the nis/nfs server, and the other workstations use
      Ian> autofs to mount the home dirs on login. Seems like after a certain
      Ian> period, the home directories become unexported, or something. I have to
      Ian> restart the nfs program and do exportfs -a, and then restart autofs on
      Ian> the workstation in order for it to properly be able to login and mount.
      Ian> Logging in again shortly after logging out is no problem. But logging in
      Ian> again after a while, it no longer is able to mount the directory, and I
      Ian> have to restart the services and export again.
      Ian>
      Ian> Is there a new timeout or something that I can change? I have the stuff
      Ian> in /etc/exports set up as 'sync', if that makes any difference.

    I went through the same steps and mindset but after reading
    other posts about "nfs problem", I back-reved my
    nfs-kernel-server and my problems went away.

    Good luck.

    - Bill
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