hi ya jonathan
> I've uninstalled autofs (3 as comes with RH) and installed autofs-4
> (autofs-4.0.0pre10-1). I've aliased autofs4 to autofs in modules.conf.
> Clearly autofs is basically working in that I can now do hierarchical
> mounts, thus:
yes... first thing to do is fix redhat so that it works...
and especially tighten security on it
( usually lots of things are broken out of the box )
> boreas -rw,hard,intr \
> /disk1 boreas:/mydisks/disk1 \
> /disk2 boreas:/mydisks/disk2
>
> Works. However, I'm trying to get the auto_net map to work, and I'm
> having problems. I've nailed down the problem to the fact that maps
> with multi-level mount points fail. Thus:
>
> boreas -rw,hard,intr \
> /mydisks/home boreas:/mydisks/home
>
> Fails. Since most machines export disks more than one directory deep
> (e.g. /export/stuff) this will kill auto_net, since
> /net/host/export/stuff would fail. Anyone know why this is dying for
> me? It's critical to get this up to move forward.
maybe i am missing something but i am assuming that boreas
is exporting /mydisks/disk1, /mydisks/disk2 and /mysidks/home
and all that should all work ...
all machines should be able to see all three dir tree on breaas...
thanx
alvin
