Thanx go out to everyone that gave helpful comments and to those who flamed me for not being more specific in my question and who claimed I was lazy because I didnt take to time to search the archives ... here is a list of people .. they are not in any particular order .. so dont read into the order as being who was helpful and who was not ... Brian D. Beers, Jay Lessert, Fabrice Guerini, Todd Urie, Tom Crummey devnull@merctech.com, Glass, David ,Rob McCauley ,Andrew_Rotramel Martin Schmitt ,Ted John, Brian Dunbar ,Deborah Santomauro Michael Horton ,Scott D Thornberry ,Steve Mickeler ,Mark McManus many of your suggested that the automounter was causing the problem here is how the system was setup local users --> /home/l/<username> NIS users --> /home/a/<username> notice the "l" and "a" upon futher investigation I found that a several users was added by a new admin at the remote site ... he apparently didnt pay close attention to the add-user document and created the account without the "a" and "l" in the home directory path for the users ... and of course when those NIS users logged in /home got stompped I will in the future pay more attention when I look at the df -k and the mount outputs for the actual mounted path of the user that is logged on I guess I will need to put all the NIS maps and auto* stuff in the RCS and have a scipt that mails the admins when there is a change ... -- rick _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Apr 9 17:45:26 2002
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