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Subject: Re: How to get more descriptive errors from auto-mount daemon?
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Richard Morse <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG> writes:

> Hi! I'm using the auto-mount daemon to access another server via NFS, and I keep getting error messages in `/var/log/messages`:
>
> 	May 27 01:03:26 hedwig amd[9851]: mountd rpc failed: RPC: Can't decode result
> 	May 27 01:03:26 hedwig last message repeated 4 times
>
> My searches so far on the web have failed to find anything that seems to apply. I'm wondering if there is a way that I can make amd or mountd provide more information in the logs?

Start with "-d" for mountd.  
You will want to do this from the command line,
not from the startup scripts.