Gary,
You can safely turn apmd off since, as you pointed out, is
more of a laptop thing; use chkconfig, or ntsysv, or some
other tool to change the startup links in /etc/rc.d/rcN.d/
(where N=runlevel).
autofs is, in my opinion, a very useful why of dynamically
mounting directories... in this case
/etc/auto.master:
/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout 60
/etc/auto.misc:
kernel -ro,soft,intr ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux
cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom
If you 'cd /misc/kernel' autofs will try to NFS mount the
directory /pub/linux from ftp.kernel.org (assuming the
server allows you ro do this...).
'cd /misc/cd' will mount your cdrom. If either directory is untouched for
60 seconds (the argument to --timeout), it will be unmounted.
These two are "cute," but autofs is very useful in a multi-workstation
environment where home-directories are cross-mounted, e.g.
/home-box00 ... /home-box99 must be available (on request) from
all the boxes. Always mounting all of the directories creates problems
if/when boxes go offline...
Good reading:
"Managing NFS and NIS",
Hal Stern, Mike Loukides (Editor)
O'Reilly & Associates, Paperback, Published July 1991,
436 pages, ISBN 0937175757
Hope this helps!
(Congrats on the new VA-box! We have quite a few of them
here, and they work very well.)
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\Peter.
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