Re: tlug: Re: your mail

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 11 May 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:

> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Scott> On Mon, 11 May 1998, Marcus Metzler wrote:
>     >> 
>     >> Scott Stone writes: > Thanks, this works great... what's the
>     >> 'utimeout' for, is that how long it > has to be idle before
>     >> umounting it?  Yes, I think so
> 
>     Scott> well, unless it's specified in HOURS, it must be something
>     Scott> else.. I've had it mounted for 4 hours, inactive, and it
>     Scott> hasn't unmounted itself.. sigh...  I guess I have to pore
>     Scott> through that awful texinfo docs again :)
> 
> 
> Are you sure that you don't have a shell with the device in the
> current path? That is, if you do a 
> 
> 	cd /mnt/cdrom/some/path/down/here
> 
> Then to automounter will never be able to unmount. It gets tricky when
> you then rsh, telnet, start another subshell etc. Until you exit back
> out and cd, umount will not work. 
> 
> Try to manually unmount. If you get a "device busy" message, then
> thats the problem. You might be able to use lsof to find the culprit.

I can manually unmount it.  I've been leaving it alone on purpose to test
this to make sure it'll unmount.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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