Hi. I was searching around for some guidance about what I'm trying to do with autofs, and found your list. Now, I'm not on Linux, I'm on Irix...but this should be a generic autofs question...can anyone tell me whether this would work on Linux? I.e., is it supposed to work? (Is it just the Irix autofs that's broken, or is this an autofs "feature?") This are the relevant maps: <<<<<<<<< server# cat /etc/auto_master /bluesky/image /etc/auto.image -rw,hard,intr,bg server# cat /etc/auto.image ice \ /998_SYSTEMS_TEST fs1:/image2/ice/998_SYSTEMS_TEST \ /fx fs1:/image/ice/fx \ /* fs1:/image/ice/& * fs1:/image/& <<<<<<<< The second (i.e., top-level) wildcard works. I can cd /bluesky/image/testing with no problem. But, client_machine# pwd /bluesky/image/ice client_machine# ls -rlat total 34 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 8192 Mar 13 15:12 998_SYSTEMS_TEST drwxrwxrwx 48 davew product 8192 Mar 15 10:12 fx dr-xr-xr-x 2 root sys 4 Mar 29 23:32 .. dr-xr-xr-x 2 root sys 4 Mar 29 23:32 . client_machine# cd fx (no problem, I can ls here) client_machine# cd Editorial Editorial: No such file or directory. (it should exist) -- If this just isn't supported, I need to do an executable map, which sounds like it won't be supported forever, and I'd need to rsh over to the server to get the info! (we are splitting /image into two, but only the top levels, /image/ice and /image2/ice, are explicitly exported from the NFS server, so a "showmount -e" won't tell me about the level beneath that. The second level may change occasionally without anyone telling me, their sysadmin, explicitly.) I tried doing something crazy like you would do for alternate hosts, but that didn't work, either...my man page doesn't even show cases where the host is different and the path is different, only where the path is the same and the hosts are different, and the hosts get a comma between them. -- so, this long-shot also didn't work: ice \ /* fs1:/image/ice/&,fs1:/image2/ice/& * fs1:/image/& -- If anyone could provide a clue, I'd be grateful...TIA. -- Bonnie Scott System Administrator Blue Sky Studios
