How to detect the unwanted processes that try to auto-mount the NFS shares ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Something is triggering an automount an NFS share :
Jul 26 03:40:46 hostname automount[2999]: attempting to mount entry /home/.Renviron.
Jul 26 03:40:46 hostname automount[2999]: attempting to mount entry /home/.Renviron.
Jul 26 03:40:46 hostname automount[2999]: >> mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting tsuserhome:/vol/userhome/.Renviron.
Jul 26 03:40:46 hostname automount[2999]: >> mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting tsuserhome:/vol/userhome/.Renviron.

Aug  8 15:26:11 hostname automount[6364]: attempting to mount entry /home/adam
Aug  8 15:26:11 hostname automount[6364]: failed to mount /home/adam
  • How to identify the processes that trying to access/mount the NFS shares ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • NFS
  • autofs

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