On Friday 12 September 2003 00:57, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > Buchan Milne wrote:
[snipped] > This config wants "mail" in /var/ to be mounted from a nfs server, but > you can't have "/var" managed by autofs. So autofs will watch the "mail" > directory directly. When a program enters/opens the directory autofs > will mount the directory from it's configured source. An auto.direct > entry would look like this: > /var/mail -actimeo=0 s383:/export/mail > Why should client need access to /var/mail ??, (obviously because you are using a mail client that access /var/mail directly). In this particular case, it would be better to use an IMAP server, then you don't need the export, and don't suffer from the stale NFS handles issue. Still does not fix the general lack of direct mount. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeClub Silver Member.
