Dominik, I am hoping to get a large number of debian 1.1 systems running in our teaching laboratories next year. We use amd at our site. I have noticed a serious problem with amd as distributed. The code enabled by defining NEW_TOPLVL_READDIR is not well thought out. It does not take into account the size of the clients buffer when making up the list of auto mount points. At our site where there are many top level auto-mount points this causes amd to crash whenever a listing is made of a top level auto-mount point. As updatedb is run every night this means that the machines are unusable every morning.
We have a decision to make between using FreeBSD and Linux. The FreeBSDers main point is that Linux networking is not as robust as that provided by FreeBSD. It seems that all distributed versions of the unnofficial patch of amd must have this problem even though in the Changelog file Erik Zadok states that the code is quickly hacked together and not tested. I have found that Debian 1.1 networking is otherwise very reliable. Nigel Williams (Programmer) Queen Mary and Westfield College Mile End Road London E1 4NS Telephone: 0171-975-5250
