James,
In your message on you write:
> > Great job on "autofs". The only grief I had with the package are:
> >
> > 1) Links for the "autofs" start scripts were omitted from the RPM.
> > Workaround "ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs /etc/rc.d/rc[3-5].d/S08autof
> s"
>
> Complain to RedHat.
>
> > 2) Configuring a local mapping fails i.e.
> >
> > /etc/auto.master:
> >
> > /usr/u /etc/auto.home -rw,hard,intr
> >
> > /etc/auto.home:
> >
> > foo -fstype=ext2 :/home/foo
> >
> > Workaround is to export "/home" and configure "auto.home":
> >
> > foo localhost::/home/foo
>
> No. You're completely misunderstanding how mounting works. Drop the
> -fstype=ext2 and it will work. -fstype=ext2 means you're trying to
> mount a *device* with an ext2 filesystem on it.
>
> > 3) Enhancement request to provide "hosts" mapping.
>
> Won't happen any time soon.
>
> -hpa
I implemented a quick hack at my site to get "hosts" functionality.
Here is the relevent entry from my auto.master file:
/net /etc/auto.net
Here is my /etc/auto.net (which is executable, so the "program-type" map
is used:
#!/bin/bash
if /usr/bin/ypmatch $1 hosts.byname 2>/dev/null 1>&2
then
echo $1:/
fi
I am using yellow-pages here to basically see if the host exists. It
would be better (but even slower) to use nslookup.
So now I can do the standard:
ls /net/<hostname>
stuff.
Hope this helps. Anybody have a better "hack"?
Andrew
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