SunSpots Automount query
Henry B.J. Krempel
krempel at pacrat.npac.syr.edu
Sat Dec 3 07:32:38 AEST 1988
I have used automount quite a bit, and it works fine, except for some
circumstances.
I use it this way:
automount -m /net -hosts /vol auto.vol
(these are default names for examples in the manual, and on the 386i, I
have to admit that I didn't understand automount fully until I looked at
the 386i setup).
The /net entry allows me to refer to disks on other systems:
cd /net/rodan/u1/
puts me at rodan:/u1
the other entry comes from a yp map "auto.vol" which maps sofytware
package names to their location on the net. /etc/auto.vol looks like
this:
maker: sparky:/usr/maker
emacslib: pacrat:/usr/local/lib/emacs
diamond: sparky:/usr/diamond
Art: sparky:/usr/Art
when /vol/Art is referred to, the appropriate file is automounted.
NOTE: I have had a few problems:
When you have something in your current working directory that is resident
on a machine that is down, it may lock up that session. This happenned to
me with a file in my home directory, suntools froze. So putting cute
links like: ln -s /net/cmx/u1/g1/me cmx in your home directory is
ill-advised.
I would not use automount extensively on a machine that you were doing
research demos on.
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