In a message dated: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:25:16 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Hi,
>
>I'm having a problem with automount in that when I cd into the automount
>"projects" the sub directories are hidden.
>If I cd into a sub directory that I know exists "/projects/network" then it
>will appear in a ls -l of projects.
This is not a "problem" but normal behavior of automount. /projects
is a mount point. Until something is mounted, it does not exist on a
client machine, and therefore, you can't see it with ls. When you
'cd' into it, the OS intercepts your command, passes it off to
automount, which then locates the appropriate file system in the
auto.* maps, and NFS mounts the file system for you in the /projects
directory by doing the equivalent of:
mkdir /projects/network
mount -t nfs server:/network /projects/network
When the "automount" time out is incurred, it cleans up after itself
by doing the equivalent of:
umount /projects/network
rmdir /projects/network
If you need to know what's "available" under the /projects directory,
you need to know which auto. map this information is kept in.
If you're running NIS, then use the ypmatch/ypcat commands on the
auto. maps. If you use local files, then grep through the /etc/auto.*
maps.
HTH,
--
Seeya,
Paul
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