[svlug] amd vs. autofs

[D. Dante Lorenso]

What is the difference ... I run automountd on my solaris machine...works
fine.  So, I decided to take a look at amd (as the free source
replacement) to be used on my Linux machine.  So...I modified my
/etc/auto.master and etc/auto.home and tried to get my NIS maps to be
pulled on for aut.home data.  Instead, this only gave me errors.  So, then
I did some move digging and found autofs.  

I launch autofs, and it automatically calls the NIS maps and fires off a
automount program to handle requests for certain directories.  Ok, so now
my home directory is yanked from the NIS tables, but the /net mappings for
all hosts on my network don't come up...I looked at /etc/auto.master, but
it contains the /net -hosts -suid entry that it is supposed to have.
Cool...so I launch amd again, and now /net works.  Ok, so which app do I
need?  It seems like amd SHOULD be able to do the /home directories as
well as /net (since my solaris box does), but then, why must I invoke
autofs as well?  

Now, I'm not an expert in automounting (yet), so I'd appreciate any help
in understanding which process is needed and which isn't...  I look at
processes running, and the autofs script on my RH5.1 box calls a separate
'automount' binary for EACH directory I want to automount...  Can't this
be done with one daemon instead?

Dante

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D. Dante Lorenso
dante at lorenso.com
http://www.lorenso.com/dante




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