[Solved] autofs service not starting at boot?

Vandaahl · 2017-02-25 20:32:06

This is probably a newbie question with an easy answer, but I have setup autofs for on-demand access to my nfs shares successfully on Ubuntu and I'm trying the same configuration on my new Arch installation. Problem is, the shares are only mounted when I enter this command (which I got from the Arch wiki):

# automount -f -v

When I do this, the shares are mounted perfectly without errors. When I try to access the mount folder after a reboot, it's empty until I issue above command. How do I go about correcting this? I do not want the nfs shares mounted at boot, I want them mounted when I access my mount folder. Here's my auto.master file:

#
# Sample auto.master file
# This is a 'master' automounter map and it has the following format:
# mount-point [map-type[,format]:]map [options]
# For details of the format look at auto.master(5).
#
#/misc	/etc/autofs/auto.misc
#
# NOTE: mounts done from a hosts map will be mounted with the
#	"nosuid" and "nodev" options unless the "suid" and "dev"
#	options are explicitly given.
#
#/net	-hosts
#
# Include /etc/autofs/auto.master.d/*.autofs
# The included files must conform to the format of this file.
#
#+dir:/etc/autofs/auto.master.d
#
# Include central master map if it can be found using
# nsswitch sources.
#
# Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as
# above) in the included master map any keys that are the
# same will not be seen as the first read key seen takes
# precedence.
#
#+auto.master

/home/me/Diskstation   /etc/autofs/auto.nfs  --timeout=90 --ghost

and my auto.nfs file:

Downloads 192.168.1.141:/volume1/Downloads
Temp 192.168.1.141:/volume3/Temp
web 192.168.1.141:/volume1/web

Last edited by Vandaahl (2017-02-26 10:53:07)

jasonwryan · 2017-02-25 20:34:17

What are you doing to start it at boot? What errors are printed to the journal when this doesn't work?

Moving to NC...

Vandaahl · 2017-02-25 20:50:11

jasonwryan wrote:

What are you doing to start it at boot?

Well this is probably my problem then, I'm not doing anything to start it at boot. I assumed installing the autofs package from AUR took care of everything.

So I just did a search on the wiki and found this:

# sudo systemctl enable autofs

And now it's working on boot. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

jasonwryan · 2017-02-25 20:53:22

Arch is not Ubuntu: installing a package doesn't start it, or enable it to run at boot. You are in charge of that.

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[Solved] autofs service not starting at boot?

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