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Tristram Scott  
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 More options Mar 21 2012, 12:29 pm
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From: tristram.sc...@ntlworld.com (Tristram Scott)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:29:09 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Wed, Mar 21 2012 12:29 pm
Subject: Re: Struggling with amd(8) on NetBSD
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In comp.sys.sun.admin Volker Borchert <v_borch...@despammed.com> wrote:
> Hi all

> I am trying to set up amd(8) to automount server:/{home,tools,archive}
> as /{home,tools,archive}, on a machine running NetBSD-1.5.1 (pretty old,

[snip]

I am not sure about NetBSD, but under solaris the idea is this:

In /etc/auto_master, have a line referring to a direct map file:

+auto_master
/net            -hosts          -nosuid,nobrowse
/home           auto_home       -nobrowse
/-   auto_direct

In auto_direct, list your keys and the associated filesystems:

/somedir   somehost:/export/somedir
/anotherdir   anotherhost:/theotherdir

You may need to restart the automountd process or some of its friends.

The important thing seems to be that you use auto_master to list the names
of map files, so auto_home and auto_direct for the example above, and then,
in the map files (/etc/auto_direct) you list the mappings.  For direct
mappings, you need to use the /- key in auto_master.  direct mappings are
what you want here, as they specify absolute paths, not relative ones.

Man automount (1M) has the explanation under Solaris.

--
Dr Tristram J. Scott              
Energy Consultant                  


 
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