"Todd Denniston" <Todd.Denniston at tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil> wrote in message news:4B168426.9030805 at tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil... > Kwan Lowe wrote, On 12/02/2009 07:07 AM: >> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Eric B. >> <ebenze at hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> My problem, however, is that once my ldap server is back up, autofs >>> never >>> seems to retry to connect to it, so all my /home mounts fail. >>> Basically, it >>> means I have to make sure that my LDAP server is never down while >>> another >>> server is rebooting. >>> >>> I figure there must be something in the configuration file that would >>> allow >>> me to tweak this to indicate to autofs to recheck the ldap server >>> periodically to see if it has come back up, but can't seem to find >>> anything. >> >> Once the server is back up, does restarting the autofs daemon fix the >> behaviour? >> >> Also, try setting the logging to debug.. Might give you a better idea >> of why it's not reconnecting. > > Perhaps the following links from an autofs list thread will point to > something for Eric: > subject: "[autofs] ldap and reloading" > http://linux.kernel.org/pipermail/autofs/2009-June/005775.html > http://linux.kernel.org/pipermail/autofs/2009-June/005779.html > > BTW the 'how to' debug Autofs is at: > http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer/ Thanks for the links. Not exactly what I need, but maybe an alley to help me down the path. In the meantime, if anyone else has any suggestions what I can do, would love to hear about it. Thanks, Eric