Hey, I got it! I decided to use autofs4, but I just didn't read auto.net closely enough. I found the nonstrict option, which allows skipping mount points that won't mount. Thanks for your help, Forrest -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 3:31 PM To: Taylor, ForrestX Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 autofs and the /net directory On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:45:55AM -0800, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > I've read the archives, and I have a few questions about the /net directory. > I want to auto mount directories in /net under the > /net/<hostname>/<exports>/<dirs>. It seems that there is a solution using > the new autofs4. I don't _really_ want to do this unless it is very stable, > because this is for a production environment, and I am installing machines > via Kickstart NFS install. I can patch the kernel and rebuild the rpm (I > already have to do it for a couple of other programs), but I want to know if > there is a solution that I can use with the existing systems (autofs-3.1.4, > kernel 2.2.16). No. The whole point of doing autofs4 was to enable this feature. Autofs has been pretty reliable for me and people I know who use it, but I'd love to get some more feedback. There are no serious outstanding bugs (in fact all the bugs are map parsing nits, from memory). > Can I use the auto.net file from autofs-4? If you upgrade the automount daemon to 4, you may be able to use it for hosts which export a single filesystem from / (ie: host:/). I haven't tested it, and it's not very useful in practice. autofs3 won't cope with auto.net at all. > Will it work at > getting the exports/directories from other hosts (BTW must the hosts be in > /etc/hosts, or can I get them via NIS/NFS?)? auto.net just looks them up using the resolver, so however you have that set up (generally DNS). J
