[389-users] RH 3-5 systems hanging requiring autofs restart to fix issue

[Morris, Patrick]

Charles Gilbert wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am experiencing an issue with  my systems in that autofs, or even 
> nscd or crond hangs after our RH 3, 4, and 5 machines are being used 
> for a while.  This issue is causing concern that our LDAP install is 
> not stable obviously, and has sent me on a goose chase to find some 
> answers. 
>
> Errors I get in the syslog are that automount: nss_ldap: can not 
> contact LDAP server.

Make sure you've got the most recent version of nss_ldap. Some of the 
older Red Hat versions were buggy and could cause screwiness with LDAP 
lookups.