On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:39:03PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ferret > > autofs hides things that would be under your mount point > ie using autofs to mount server:/home /home will > hide all your /home/<stuff> on your local pc... > ..all you'd see is server:/home > > - thats good and bad...depending....
Actually it hides everything in the mount point's parent.. then mkdir()s the mount point on attempted access. At least that's how it behaves. > you probably need to do some symlinks to get the desired > effect of what you're looking for ??? > > Lets say you have these files.... > > /etc/auto.master > # > # make sure /.autofs exists... > # > /.autofs /etc/auto.misc --timeout 600 > > /etc/auto.misc > acct acct_server:/path/acct > music music_server:/path/music > > make sure you can manually mount those remote fs before > attempting it with automounters > > cd /share > ln -s /.autofs/acct /share/acct > ln -s /.autofs/music /share/music > = > = stop and start autofs to load the changes > = > > now you can access your stuff on any server with the above autofs > config files > ls -la /share/acct/* > ls -la /share/music/* Yup. That's exactly what I was doing. > i think how you got into the directory would affect what shows > for PS1.... whether ~ or hardpaths.... an option you need to define > in .bashrc > # ... stuff in .bashrc > # either set it or unset it... > # > set hardpaths > > the other way to automount remote fs is to use amd.... :-) I'll try these two.. > have fun > alvin > http://www.linux-Consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html Hmmm. Connection timed out on me. I'll try later. > On Wed, 2 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I can't figure this out.. I want a consistant directory structure across > > my network, and I want to have all my nfs-mounts using autofs4. > > > > The problem: > > > > I have my home directories under /share/acct/, and I have extra project > > space from another server under /share/projects, and I have an mp3/ogg > > archive on that same server under /share/music. > > > > If I use the autofs package to mount the /share/acct export, it will > > 'hide' everything it doesn't manage under /share. So /share/projects and > > /share/music will be hidden. Hidden from the nfs-server on this machine. > > > > I discovered a partial workaround, by making autofs manage > > /share/.autofs and symlinking /share/projects -> > > /share/.autofs/projects, and /share/music -> /share/.autofs/music. > > But if I do this with /share/acct -> /share/.autofs/acct, little things > > break in annoying ways. The PS1 prompt in bash now displays > > /share/.autofs/acct/idalton instead of ~ for my home PWD, for example. > > > > Details: > > > > Server tarot exports /share/acct to the rest of the network and exports > > user accounts by NIS. Server heathen exports /share/projects and > > /share/music to the rest of the network. > > > > Server tarot needs to access heathen:/share/projects at /share/projects > > and heathen:/share/music at /share/music. > > Server heathen needs to access tarot:/share/acct at /share/acct WITHOUT > > that PWD behaviour. > > > > Workstation bicycle doesn't export anything out of its /share, so I can > > just have autofs manage /share directly and not have any of these > > problems. > > > > > > So, what are the alternatives? > > > > -- Ferret > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
