Re: I/O error using autofs "-hosts", "-noauto" special maps

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2021, John D. Baker wrote:

> The special maps "-hosts" and "-noauto" fail with "I/O error".  When I
> was first trying 'autofs', I just used the default "auto_master" which
> only defined the special map
> 
>   /net 		-hosts 		-nobrowse,nosuid,intr
> 
> and this failed as described above when I try to access any machine
> which is exporting filesystems via NFS.

Hmm.  After having the "/net" map active but idle for a while, it suddenly
started working when I accessed it just now.  There seem to be some
glitches when accessing a server for the first time, but it eventually
works.

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