On Friday 08 September 2006 12:52, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > On 2006-09-08 13:26, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> Look in the file /etc/auto.master. If there are no uncommented lines, > >> you can disable autofs with impunity. > > > > Thanks for the clarification. > > > > There is one uncommented line: > > > > /net /etc/auto.net > > > > Probably that is what is causing the messages. However, can you explain > > to me what that line is doing? Thanks > > That tells autofs to use the file /etc/auto.net when you try to access > files under /net. Normally, auto.net makes the NFS-exported file > systems from other hosts available. E.g., assuming foo.example.org is a > host that exports / and /usr, then /net/foo.example.org is the / file > system of foo.example.org and /net/foo.example.org/usr is the /usr file > system of foo.example.org. > > If you disable autofs, then you won't be able to access those hosts > through /net anymore (although you can still mount them explicitly). If > you're not doing that anyway, then disabling autofs won't do any harm. Perfect, thanks. /net is empty, so it can't possibly be needed by this system :-) Anne
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