Re: weird autofs behaviour

[Radu Muschevici <ext2@gmx.ch>]

On Sun, 04 Mar, 2001 at 21:07:43 +0100, Radu Muschevici wrote:
> I installed autofs, configured it to auto-mount removable devices
> like cd-rom, cd-recorder, floppy under /var/autofs/console/
> 
> I have put the following symlinks in / :
> 
> cdrec -> /var/autofs/console/cdrec
> cdrom -> /var/autofs/console/cdrom
> floppy -> /var/autofs/console/floppy
> 
> now when I do a 'ls /' the kernel always tries to mount these 
> three devices. Why is this happening? 
> 'ls' is aliased to 'ls --color=auto' in my .bashrc.
> 
> Strange enough, when i invoke '/bin/ls /' (that means 'pure' ls without 
> any option) this doesn't happen.
> Why?

I forgot to mention: i have:

Debian woody/testing
linux 2.2.18
autofs 3.1.7-1
fileutils 4.0.37-1

> 
> Radu
> 
> 
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