Constantly repeating automount messages in /var/log/messages
Issue
Messages similar to the following are repeating in /var/log/messages:
Feb 25 14:53:36 hostname automount[4674]: st_expire: state 1 path /net
Feb 25 14:53:36 hostname automount[4674]: expire_proc: exp_proc = 140382752212736 path /net
Feb 25 14:53:36 hostname automount[4674]: expire_cleanup: got thid 140382752212736 path /net stat 0
Feb 25 14:53:36 hostname automount[4674]: expire_cleanup: sigchld: exp 140382752212736 finished, switching from 2 to 1
Feb 25 14:53:36 hostname automount[4674]: st_ready: st_ready(): state = 2 path /net
Feb 25 14:53:47 hostname automount[4674]: st_expire: state 1 path /misc
Feb 25 14:53:47 hostname automount[4674]: expire_proc: exp_proc = 140382752212736 path /misc
Feb 25 14:53:47 hostname automount[4674]: expire_cleanup: got thid 140382752212736 path /misc stat 0
Feb 25 14:53:47 hostname automount[4674]: expire_cleanup: sigchld: exp 140382752212736 finished, switching from 2 to 1
Feb 25 14:53:47 hostname automount[4674]: st_ready: st_ready(): state = 2 path /misc
In /etc/sysconfig/autofs, logging is disabled:
LOGGING="none"
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
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