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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers ls command gives "Not a directory" error message Post 302465834 by zedex on Sunday 24th of October 2010 02:12:53 PM
Old 10-24-2010
hi sreeharshasn

looks like /opt/perl5.10.0/perl is on mount point which is mounted using autofs
which drops the mount point after certain period of idle time.

when u do ls -lrt /opt/perl5.10.0/perl at that time it does not exist it needs to be mounted first .. so for the first time ls -lrt returns error but that mounts that directory .. so that mount will work for some time ( that time is decided in auto mount )

if you want to make sure ( below commands runs on Linux )

Code:
$ cd /opt ; df . 
check the output of above command .. if auto mounted you will see autofs and PID in bracket  

$ service autofs status 
check if /opt or /opt/perl5.10.0 is listed there ..it will also list timeout count in seconds 

if not on linux, run below command 

$ /etc/init.d/autofs status

i have faced same issue in which particular directory was not accessible first time you use it after reboot ..

hope this solves your problem Smilie
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AUTOFS(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 AUTOFS(8)

NAME
/etc/init.d/autofs - Control Script for automounter SYNOPSIS
/etc/init.d/autofs start|stop|restart|reload|status DESCRIPTION
autofs control the operation of the automount(8) daemons running on the Linux system. Usually autofs is invoked at system boot time with the start parameter and at shutdown time with the stop parameter. The autofs script can also manually be invoked by the system administra- tor to shut down, restart or reload the automounters. OPERATION
autofs will consult a configuration file /etc/auto.master (see auto.master(5)) by default to find mount points on the system. For each of those mount points automount(8) will mount and start a thread, with the appropriate parameters, to manage the mount point. /etc/init.d/autofs reload will check the current auto.master map against running daemons. It will kill those daemons whose entries have changed and then start daemons for new or changed entries. If a map is modified then the change will become effective immediately. If the auto.master map is modified then the autofs script must be rerun to activate the changes. /etc/init.d/autofs status will display the status of, automount(8), running or not. SEE ALSO
automount(8), autofs(5), auto.master(5). autofs_ldap_auth.conf(5) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christoph Lameter <chris@waterf.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Edited by H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com>. 9 Sep 1997 AUTOFS(8)
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