hi ya ronny
> Another point for the wishlist; since I guess most of the known Unix
> universe is using AMD, a script to parse AMD-maps and generate autofs
> ones would probably be very helpful, as you can see from this list.
> I wrote one myself but it's just a trifle and won't do for serious
> distribution.
can you forward me a copy of it ??
I have collected some conversion scripts that generates autofs files
from NIS, ...
( see autofs-HOWTO.html - section 5.3 )
> More whining... after fighting with AMD and trying to figure out where
> the hell those amd-upl-xxx came from I didn't get happier when trying
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/mount
amd920824upl67.tar.gz
... etc ...
> to find autofs, no official web-site
ftp.sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mount/autofs-*
ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/autofs-*
> just a ftp archive, already a
> frightening number of strange autofs distributions.
huh ??? other versions than what Peter is maintaining ???
> A NEWS file in the
> distribution where there are almost no differences between version
> 0.3.14 and 3.1.2.
> No HOWTO or similar document.
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
> No explanation as to
> how the daemon ties into the kernel, no explanation on which version
> of the kernel is needed...
see above howto...
> Yeah, I know, a lot of whining. Sorry. On the positive side, autofs
> _might_ be less buggy then AMD... ;)
works an order of magnitude better than amd for simple automounting of
/var/spool/mail, /home, /usr/local
have fun
alvin
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS
