On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 14:13 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > Erwin Rol wrote: > ... > > The question is is it normal that the host name must be in /etc/hosts > > before autofs will work with nfs ? > > Can you do a "ping gate" without this entry in /etc/hosts? DNS works fine and I can ping, ssh, showmount with the name "gate" just fine without the /etc/hosts entry. In /var/log/messages I have the following errors when the name isn't in /etc/hosts. Oct 8 13:40:25 xpc automount[2203]: attempting to mount entry /net/gate Oct 8 13:40:25 xpc automount[2203]: lookup(hosts): can't find path in hosts map /net/gate Oct 8 13:40:25 xpc automount[2203]: failed to mount /net/gate - Erwin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
