hi ya brian...hi peter
i was just thinking of a different way ( script ) tooo...
problem is if win95 ( viritual host stays down )...no problem
the script mounts it...and we're done...
but while mounted... someone fires up the win95 virtual host w/ vmware...
than you are asking for disaster..
if it was already up... than autofs can figure out what to do...
have fun linuxing
alvin
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Ping the known desired host...
# if its there...autofs will do the magic
# if its not there...autofs mount it differently ??
#
# printf using peter's method...
#
` ping -c 1 win95 `;
if ( $? ) {
# win95 there ( use nfs )
printf "-fstype=nfs,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 Win95.mydomain.com:/export";
}
else {
# win95 not there - ( use vfat on local partition )
printf "-fstype=vfat,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 :/dev/hdaxxx";
}
#
# end of file
> > If I understand the principle of program map types the 'program' is
> > executed and then returns something(what?) to automount to continue
> > with the mount. If this is the case then I would like the program to
> > determine the state of the guest os and return what is necessary to
> > automount to either mount the vfat drives natively or via smbmount. I
> > can do this.
> >
> > I just don't know how the program maps are defined or setup or
> > anything in the autofs files. There are no examples in any of the docs
> > that I could find of using program map types. If I could find some
> > examples of a program map type I probably could figure it out on my
> > own.
> >
>
> The program map gets passed the key as the argument, and you need have
> the program map output whatever you would put beside the key in a file
> map. If it returns a nonzero exit code that is considered a failed
> lookup. For example, here is a shell script program map that returns
> one of two servers depending on the first letter of the key:
>
> #!/bin/sh -
> #
> # letter_map
> #
> l1=`echo "$1" | cut -c1`
>
> case "$l1" in
> [a-e]) server=a-e ;;
> [f-p]) server=f-p ;;
> [q-z]) server=q-z ;;
> *) exit 1 ;; # Invalid key
> esac
>
> echo "-fstype=nfs,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 $server.mydomain.com:/export"
> exit 0
>
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