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>Hi all,
>
>According to the automounter, autofs man pages, Linux does not support direct
>maps. So I've constructed an indirect map like this:
>
>
>auto.master:
> /usr/net auto.net
>
>auto.net:
> * -fstype=nfs martin:/usr/net/&
>
>For some reason this does not work, yet, if I change auto.master to read:
>
> /auto auto.net
>
>and auto.net to read:
> net -fstype=nfs martin:/usr/net/&
>
>Things work fine. so, it seems that I cannot use mountpoints that are not off
>the root directory. Is this correct? It seems bizarre that this would be the
>case. Anyone doing anything like this?
Mount point off the root work. I've got a few of them setup and they
work ok.
My versions are:
yp-tools-2.3-2
ypbind-3.3-24
autofs-3.1.3-9
I'm not certain what you are trying to do with the above mounts.
There is a bug that we've found that the mount points are NOT created
for you. That is the left side of your /etc/auto.master needs to be
created with a "mkdir -p". That may be your only problem above?
On another note I you may be having problems since it looks like your
mounting an automounted location "martin:/usr/net/"? It might be that
I'm just anal about it but I like to have things setup so that it's
obvious that I'm using an automount. We've set things up so that
/net/* is all automounted. If you use a path with /net/ as a prefix
you're mounting. There are no disks mounted under that tree. This
makes it easy to keep backups from going there! As well as clarity in
what you are attaching too. Just my $0.02 worth.
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Robert E. Anderson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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UNH Research Computing Center fax: (603) 862-1761
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