> Is worshiping unix required for using solaris? Absolutely. As a bonus, you get to really enjoy it.
> What [b]exactly[/b] is wrong with having users in > /home? It seems you're angry that Linux is more used, > isn't it? Oh, I'm absolutely, positively, and without a doubt angry that I have to deal with total and complete amateurs every day who think that they know how things should be done, and who think that Linux, a severly broken, UNIX wannabe hack is the way to go. You don't even want to get me started on that, so let's drop that part of the discussion and move right along. As for /home, that's the mount point onto which the AutoMounter mounts users' home directories. You see, in any environment where you have more than one PC-bucket, you'll probably want to implement a central file server, usually with some sort of a big RAID, that, among other things, will serve up your users' home directories. Sun, as the inventor of NFS, has defined /export/home/ as a point from which resources are exported. So instead of trying to figure out which server to mount to and where, with the AutoMounter it's a uniform location, namely /home. This in turn makes it consistent across multiple systems and your files are always remotely mounted on the same mount point (/home). It was designed this way to abstract the physical location. Point in case: if you set up the AutoMounter on the very system that your home directory is on, the AutoMounter will simply NFS loopback-mount /export/home under /home (in a somewhat complex way, but this is abstracted from you as the user). Now, going back to what is wrong, the fact of life is that most Linux users have one or two disparate systems at home, and usually maintain either dual boot, or separate home accounts on each server. Most don't even know there is such a thing as the AutoMounter facility, so to these people it would appear that the logical place to put their home directories is, in fact, /home. This is of course misleading, but you go and try to explain that to someone with an almost religious fervor toward Linux. I think you'd get angry too. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
