On 25/07/17 13:33, doron cohen wrote:
Once in a while, after a reboot, we detect autofs is not running. After some investigating we discovered that the pid file in /run/autofs-running hasn't been cleaned before reboot and autofs reports it is already running: [root@autofs-6 ~]# pidof automount [root@autofs-6 ~]# automount --debug automount: program is already running. [root@autofs-6 ~]# cat /run/autofs-running 3394 [root@autofs-6 ~]# rm /run/autofs-running rm: remove regular file ‘/run/autofs-running’? y [root@autofs-6 ~]# automount --debug [root@autofs-6 ~]# pidof automount 6362 [root@autofs-6 ~]# cat /run/autofs-running 6362
It's been a long time since I looked at this code. It seems that if a pid file is found only the existence of a process is checked. Whether that process is an automount process or not isn't checked. So if some other process with that pid now exists but isn't an automount process the check will get a false positive. I'll need to fix that. Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in
