hi ya ed...
.... good on stuff about debian...
others have posted comments/fixes/patches along
the way....all their emails are psuedo-archived
on my machine....( ie i save everything )
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs_Email_Archive
( unfortunately....just one file ( 3.8Mb) of all emails )
there should be patches that people have posted
for reading in ypcat file....donno if it works etc
( i do everthing to avoid using yp )
( probably just as painful but at least yp won't
be the reason for any network failures...slow reponses etc
have fun
alvin
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Ed Breen wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> >
> > Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > we built debian-2.1 from its cdrom...
> > > ( no deb-2.2 official yet as far as i know )
> >
> > Not yet, however you can download test images. Take a look
> > at http://cdimage.debian.org/ for information on where to get
> > those.
>
> We built the distribution from this site. I don't have the details.
>
> >
> > > we just applied "most of" the patches since ot keep it
> > > current to deb-2.2 as much as possible...
>
> We do this also. and just to the side I have also found that if i
> install 2.2 fresh i can't get, under X, 3 button logitech mice to be
> recognised as ps2 with device /dev/psaux it thinks it is a microsoft
> mouse etc and therefore no middle button working. but if i upgrade from
> slink to potato no problems.
>
> >
> > Which patches are that exactly? You might be better of to upgrade
> > to potato, or get the source for the potato autofs package and
> > build that for your slink system.
>
> the upgrade path still brakes autofs. we have tried it, still need to
> replace the /etc/init.d/autofs script.
>
> >
> > > and am on the deb list...but not many complaints
> > > about autofs there...which is good and bad ???
> >
> > Which Debian list? There are dozens..
>
> How do i find out. I am willing for our site to be beta test site for
> debian with respect to network configuration.
>
> The problem i see with the /etc/init.d/autofs script (3.1.4-4) that
> comes with 2.2 is that it doesn't read any ypcat files. therefore it
> doesn't read in auto.master from our nis server. it appears to be nis
> unaware. The older script just fell through a logic progression and got
> all the mount points established. home directories and exported file
> systems work fine. The script is too complicated for me to decipher, but
> i know /etc/init.d/autofs (3.1.1-7) works for me.
>
