FWIW, your patch from http://www.spinics.net/lists/autofs/msg00015.html has been running unhindered for 5 days. That's approximately the interval in which one crash would have been noticed, so the situation is encouraging. Thanks again for the help. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html