Am I right, that with autofs you can see only directories which are
mounted at the time you check mount point (like ls /var/spool).
AMD has a 'browser' option which allowed to see everything which
is defined to be mounted without actually mounting them ?
I'd like this be possible with autofs.
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Jeff Mangewala wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I'm running Redhat 5.2
> I upgraded to kernel v2.2.1 and installed all of the updates from:
> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/updates/5.2/kernel-2.2/i386
>
> Then I compiled autofs 3.1.3
> % automount -v
> Linux automount version 3.1.3
>
> If I have a /etc/auto.master like this:
> /var/spool /etc/auto.mail
>
> and a /etc/auto.mail like this:
> mail -rw,fstype=nfs,nolock,actimeo=0 mailspool:/export/spool/mail
>
> Then I can't see anything in /var/spool (like mqueue)
>
> One way I've fixed this problem is:
>
> /etc/auto.master:
> /misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout 60
>
> /etc/auto.misc:
> mail -rw,fstype=nfs,nolock,actimeo=0 mailspool:/export/spool/mail
>
> ln -s /misc/mail /var/spool/mail
>
>
>
> Is there a better way?
>
> Is there a plan to put direct maps into autofs?
>
>
> I think "amd" might be able to do what I want, but I've heard
> of a bunch of improvements going on in autofs...I've been unable
> to find good documentation on autofs.
>
> Is amd gonna go away???
>
> I would appreciate pointers to all things autofs in Linux.
>
> Is there an archive of this mailing list?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Mangewala
>
