hi juergen
there is no problems with bash' filename completion on any dir/file names...
( mine uses esc key instead of tab key
putting cdrom into autofs seems like a bad idea...as you noted, unless
you have a media in the drive...it will hang...
have fun
alvin
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
have running: rh-5.1,5.2,5.9, suse-6.0, slack-3.6, debian-2.1, pht-3.0.1, caldera-1.3
> I'm quite new to autofs. Its nice!
> Now I have a question: Is it possible to automount a device directly under `/'
> and not only under `/somewhere' ?
> I have configured to automount:
> /somewhere/cdrom
> and having a symbolic link
> /somewhere/cdrom --> /cdrom
> Works fine, as long as you don't do a `ls /'. That simply hangs.
> I think the `ls' tries to read the directory, finds the sym-link, and that
> access triggers to mount the device, which in my case was not present....
>
> Also filename expansion of `bash' does not work, not for `ls /cd <TAB>' nor for
> `ls /somewhere/cd <TAB>'. The first, I think, is due to the same reason as
> above. The second, is due to the fact, that unless accessing `/somewhere/cdrom'
> (and implicitly mounting it), the directory `/somewhere' contains no such thing
> as `cdrom'.
>
> What can I do? I like bash's filename expansion, and I like mounting the stuff
> under / directly.
>
> Another question: I'ma able to automount a cdrom-drive as user, but I can
> `umount' only as root. `/etc/fstab' is configured, so that mounting
> and unmounting can be done by a user. So what have to be done for autofs to
> have the same behaviour?
>
> With best regards
> Juergen
>
> I use Linux automount version 3.1.3, kernel 2.2.5 and installed from SuSe 6.1
>
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