Hey Thomas,
yeah, kind of. :-) i know that SuSE has something like
that.
i was thinking on dumping the network table map with the direct
mount instead of querying the exported filesystems from a host.
thx,
Dirk
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i don't dare to ask when they'll be available. ;-)
> >
> > before i reinvent the wheel: does anybody have
> > functioning workarounds? i was thinking having
> > a program /etc/auto_direct which nis/ypcats
> > the network table and creates the links/mountpoints
> > for me.
>
> something like
>
> in /etc/auto.master:
>
> /net /etc/auto.net
>
> with auto.net beeing a script *and* set executable:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> key=$1
> opts="-fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid,nonstrict"
>
> SHOWMOUNT="/usr/lib/autofs/showmount --no-headers -e $key"
>
> $SHOMOUNT | sort +0 | \
>
> awk -v key="$key" -v opts="$opts" -- '
> BEGIN { ORS=""; first=1 }
> { if (first) { print opts; first=0 }; print "\\\n\t" $1,
> key ":" $1 }
> END { if (!first) print "\n"; else exit 1 }
>
>
> after restarting autofs you may
>
> cd /net/myhost.mydomain/someexport/...
>
> Was it what you thought of?
>
> --
> Thomas
>
>
