On 16:02 28 Mar 2002, Patrick Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I've read through all of docs and all of the man pages and I'm either
| retarded (could be) or missing some amount of information to get it working.
|
| I was trying to take existing nfs exports and use automount as the mounting
| process on the client systems. When I run a status of autofs it lists my
| configured automounts but when I go to the directory that they suppose to be
| mounted on, the dir is empty.
|
| My auto.master file looks like:
| / /etc/auto.netstf
| My auto.netstf file looks like:
| /home/netstf -rw usrsvr.pn:/home/netstf
Ok. You have the wrong mental image.
The auto.master file specifies directories and maps for those directories.
For example, mine at home reads like this:
/mnt /etc/auto/mnt --timeout 60
/nfs/amadeus /etc/auto/amadeus --timeout 300
/nfs/cerebus /etc/auto/cerebus --timeout 300
/nfs/hyde /etc/auto/hyde --timeout 60
/nfs/janus /etc/auto/janus --timeout 300
/nfs/jekyll /etc/auto/jekyll --timeout 300
/nfs/msdog /etc/auto/msdog --timeout 60
/nfs/pan /etc/auto/pan --timeout 60
Each directory in the auto.master is _entirely_ controlled by the autofs
stuff. So you can't put it on / - that would mangle your system.
Each directory named here has NFS (or loopback etc) mountpoints _under_ it.
For example, my /etc/auto/mnt file (the map for /mnt above) says:
cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom
dvd -fstype=udf,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/dvd
dvdram -fstype=ext2,nosuid,nodev :/dev/dvdram
zip -fstype=ext2,nosuid,nodev :/dev/zip
floppy -fstype=vfat :/dev/fd0
So: /mnt is controlled by the automounter and /mnt/cdrom is a mountpoint.
Second example: janus. The file /etc/auto/janus (the map for /nfs/janus) says:
* -soft,intr janus:/&
This is a wildcard map, so that references to, say, /nfs/janus/home causes
the directory janus:/home to be mounted on /nfs/janus/home.
For your example, you'd say:
file auto.master:
/home /etc/auto.netstf
file auto.netstf:
netstf -rw usrsvr.pn:/home/netstf
Which would cause use of /home/netstf to trigger the mount. However,
that means /home is _entirely_ an automount map (no local home dirs). We
do this at my work where we have lots of machines which cross mounted
home directories, and my homedir there is /home/zapff/cameron (zapff ==
my workstation, cameron == my login).
For your usual Linux box peoples' homes are /home/loginname, which is why
the scheme outlined higher up: mountpoints off in /nfs/hostname/... and
/home left alone. My home directory is in /home/cameron on amadeus. On
janus /home/cameron is a symlink to /nfs/amadeus/home/cameron and it
all just works.
Does this clarify things for you?
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
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