On Monday 12 January 2009 04:13:31 Ariane van der Steldt wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:15:33PM +0100, Rudi Ludwig wrote: > > On Sunday 11 January 2009 12:44:31 Rudi Ludwig wrote: > > > i ... despite $PATH being > > > /home/<username> That is, xterm initially > > > reads: ibook:/usr/home/rudi$ > > > > ..Argh, of course > > " .... despite $HOME being ..." > > > > you might have guessed. > > I don't know anything of automounter, but if /home/username is > provided as a symlink to /usr/home/username, then that behaviour is > expected: entering a symlinked directory changes the path to the > expanded form of the symlink. > That might work as well, but the flexibility with automounter is the entries that you can have above the default (catch-all) entry and that I need at times. I.E. home directory resides on another machine for one user.
Rudi
