m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

Folks,

I've been getting complaints in our logfiles, such as May 12 10:07:07 <servername> automount[3415]: update_negative_cache: key ".git" not found in map.

a) Is there a FAQ on automount that might cover some of this? Googling hasn't found one for me? b) Any clues as to what might be causing this? I see a lot of it, in spurts.

At a guess, someone or something is trying to access a file/directory called '.git' in your automount directory.

You might want to try and go something like:

cd /mntpoint/thisdoesnotexist

where /mntpoint is name of an automount directory (e.g. defined in /etc/auto.master) and see if you get a log message saying something similar about 'thisdoesnotexist'

James Pearson