Hi, fairly new user here, and I could really use some help.
I found the Autofs at Freshmeat and thought "wow! gotta have this."
I unpacked the file, and made sure I read all the docs.
Recompiled my kernel to make sure the necessary code was there.
Compiled and installed autofs, et al.
Read all the man pages.
Read the mini howto at LDP and two other pages linked from the howto.
Edited auto.master and auto.miss as described.
Made autofs executable.
Ran it : only to get a message that tells me I'm using an
unknown system. I then checked the rc.autofs script, which seems to
imply that it will only work with Redhat or Debian.
Now I r(ALL)tfm(s) and to the best of my knowledge nowhere is it stated
that it only works with these two distributions only, other than inside
the autofs script.
And guess what? I run Slackware.
I'm hoping that I misunderstood the error message/script somehow, and
that there's some obvious and/or arcane switch somewhere that I need
to enter that will alow me to use this piece of software. If not, and all
the effort I made was in vain, I would make a VERY strong suggestion
that mention be made of this limitation somewhere BEFORE people start installing
the app, such as the readme, the install file, the Howto, or any of the
places that I read as a matter of course before installation.
Again, if this is an error on my part, I would love to know the way to
fix it, and if not, please rectify this so others won't have to end up
wasting as much time as I did.
Thanks
Mark Hughes
