>
> Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > hi simon
> >
> > > Will this mean you will be able to mount hostname:/ onto /net/hostname
> > > and then hostname:/usr onto /net/hostname/usr ?
> >
> > it can do that now...
>
> Do you mean by submounting, I have been trying that and it nearly does
> what I want. BTW, I can't get the variable definition to work as below:
>
> #
> # Sample /etc/auto.net
> # ------
> * -fstype=autofs,-Dmachine=& file:/etc/auto.net.sub
> #
> # end of file
>
> #
> # Sample /etc/auto.net.sub
> # ------
> #
> * ${machine}:/&
> #
> # end of file
>
> It ends up mounting the local filesystem:
> root@rayleigh:~# dir /try/hartley/usr
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 16 13:53 /try/hartley/usr -> /usr/
> root@rayleigh:~#
>
> Is there any documentation on the mapfile format for autofs?
>
> > > This would be really useful with the new knfsd which doesn't give
> > > access to partitions mounted below / when / is exported. Or do you
> > > know of some other way around this?
> >
> > for autofs.... I kludged it to do /net/hostname...works fine...
> > diff /Net/server1/etc/passwd /Net/home1/etc/passwd
> > ls -l /Net/*/etc/group
> >
> > diff /.autofs/server1/etc/passwd /.autofs/home1/etc/passwd
> >
> > if you have 5 machines or 500.... I'm fairly sure this schem will still
> > work.... just need a way to distribute the files to the 500 machines
> > and each one has to have a minimum level of tweeks ( autofs_fix.pl for example )
> >
>
> snip ...
>
> Thanks, that was the kind of thing I was doing before I upgraded to
> RH6.0 and therefore knfsd. I was basically doing a Sun style /net but
> listing every host I wanted explicitly.
> e.g.
>
> nyquist -posix,soft,intr,nosuid,nodev nyquist.ecs.soton.ac.uk:/
>
> This used to give me access to /net/nyquist/etc/* etc and
> /net/nyquist/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/* for example. But now, because knfsd
> no longer gives me access to /net/nyquist/usr (because it doesn't
> export mounted partitions when the directory they are mounted on has
> been exported from a higher level directory), I can't access
> /net/nyquist/usr/src/redhat/RPMS anymore.
>
> I have nearly managed to get round it by doing the submounting thing I
> mentioned earlier (specifying the host explicitly) but this only gives
> me access to partitions etc. mounted off the root directory. So I
> still can't access /net/nyquist/mnt/cdrom/* for example.
>
> If I could automount nyquist:/ /net/nyquist/ and then mount
> nyquist:/usr onto /net/nyquist/usr I would be happy but then this is a
> direct mount isn't it. Hence, my original question.
>
>
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