I'm with you on that.... autofs normally disappears pretty quickly. :)
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:07:10 -0500, Sean McAdam <sean@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
>
> > Steve Snyder wrote:
> >
> >> After a whole 3 days of using CentOS 4 I see that there is more
> >> activity on my unused CD-ROM drive than there is on my lightly used
> >> hard disk. (As indicated by the number of interrupts on the ide0 and
> >> ide1 controllers.)
> >>
> >> It seems some process is polling the CD-ROM drive to determine if
> >> there is a disk in it. My CD-ROM is hardly ever used after the
> >> initial OS installation, so it makes no sense for me to have the
> >> constant polling going on.
> >>
> >> What process is polling my CD-ROM drive and how can I stop it?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > It's probably autofs. A 'man autofs' shows that it's a filesystem
> > auto-mounter. in CentOS 4, if you look in the /etc/auto.misc, you'll
> > see that the cd is set up to auto-detect and mount whenever you put a
> > CD into the drive. You have two ways to disable this:
> >
> > 1) turn off the autofs:
> > # chkconfig autofs off
> > # service autofs stop
> >
> > 2) Stop autofs from seeing the CD:
> > - Comment out the cd entry in /etc/auto.misc and then
> > # service autofs reload
> >
>
> Personally I prefer "rpm -e autofs", that fixes things right up too.
>
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