Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> On 02-Aug-99 Simon Burley wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to set up autofs' capability to do submounts. Is there any
> > way to mount hosts under /hosts, and under the hostname, the exported
> > filesystems, eg
<snip>
> Have a look at http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/autofs. I've done some patches
> which allows a /net-style directory to mount all filesystems being exported
> from a machine. Well, that's the simple case - all the decision-making is done
> in a shell-script, so you can easily tailor it to your needs.
>
> For example, I have /etc/auto.net as a shell script:
>
> ---
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # Look at what a host is exporting to determine what we can mount.
> # This is wildly simplistic - no attempt is made to see whether we can mount
> # each filesystem, or whether its RO or RW. For the future...
>
> key="$1"
> opts="-fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid"
>
> showmount --no-headers -e "$key" | sort | \
> sed -e "s|^\([^ ]*\).*|$key\1 $opts $key:\1|"
OK. I've patched the kernel and compiled and installed the daemon.
Where does showmount come from?
Thanks
Simon
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