Hi
I'm having a strange problem in one of my customers mail servers. the
mail server (woody, qpopper) is part of a NIS and gives pop3 services.
the home directories are mounted through automount from Network
Appliance machine. at the moment it's being tested by a few users
(client is outlook) and I'm experiencing some strange problem.
every once in a while (it differs from one user to another) they get a
timeout connecting to the pop server. in the mail server's syslog there
is an entry:
"Jan 16 06:31:42 mail in.qpopper[25914]: lior at lior (192.168.150.16):
-ERR POP timeout from mail.wintegra.co.il [popper.c:817]"
this happens for one user every hour for another 3 times a day and for
some it never happens.
I've noticed that in all cases (with the exception of 3 times) 3-4
minutes after the timeout error there is an "autofs expiration" entry:
Jan 16 06:34:54 mail automount[25947]: running expiration on path
/users/lior
Jan 16 06:34:54 mail automount[25947]: expired /users/lior
Jan 16 06:39:42 mail automount[335]: attempting to mount entry
/users/lior
Jan 16 06:39:42 mail automount[25983]: lookup(yp): looking up lior
Jan 16 06:39:42 mail automount[25983]: lookup(yp): lior ->
winfiler:/vol/vol0/users/lior
Jan 16 06:39:42 mail automount[25983]: parse(sun): expanded entry:
winfiler:/vol/vol0/users/lior
Jan 16 06:39:42 mail automount[25983]: parse(sun):
dequote("winfiler:/vol/vol0/users/lior") ->
winfiler:/vol/vol0/users/lior
Jan 16 06:39:42 mail automount[25983]: parse(sun): core of entry:
options=nobrowse, loc=winfiler:/vol/vol0/users/lior
Jan 16 06:39:42 mail automount[25983]: parse(sun): mounting root /users,
mountpoint lior/, what winfiler:/vol/vol0/users/lior, fstype nfs
, options nobrowse
Jan 16 06:39:42 mail automount[25983]: mount(nfs): root=/users
name=lior/ what=winfiler:/vol/vol0/users/lior, fstype=nfs,
options=nobrow
se
Jan 16 06:39:42 mail automount[25983]: mount(nfs): calling mkdir_path
/users/lior/
Jan 16 06:39:42 mail automount[25983]: mount(nfs): calling mount -t nfs
-s -o nobrowse winfiler:/vol/vol0/users/lior /users/lior/
Jan 16 06:39:42 mail automount[25983]: mount(nfs): mounted
winfiler:/vol/vol0/users/lior on /users/lior/
I'm not sure if it's connected but it's strange that it happens almost
every time.
Anyone has any ideas?
thanx
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Haim
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