Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 11:29:55 -0600 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: current@freebsd.org, Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is amd automount still supported in 13.0 or not? Message-ID: <20200204172955.GB39757@rancor.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <20200204161505.GN1309@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20200203232333.GA37109@rancor.immure.com> <20200204.085435.139942824021996563.yasu@utahime.org> <20200204154650.GA39757@rancor.immure.com> <20200204161505.GN1309@albert.catwhisker.org>
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 08:15:05AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 09:46:50AM -0600, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > ...
> > > Amd is not build by default now and will be removed from base. But you
> > > can continue using it by installing sysutils/am-utils from port.
> >
> > Thanks for the tip. I will likely go ahead and install the am-utils port as from looking
> > at the setup and features of autofs it is way more complex and does more than I need or
> > want. I've been using amd for decades now and it does exactly what I need w/o any special
> > setup or configuration required. :)
> > ....
>
> I had also used amd from back when I still used a SPARCStation 5 as my
> home NFS (& yp) server, but switched with little fuss to autofs --
> primarily by using symlinks into /net/${host}/..., which works (for my
> purposes) just as well with either (amd or autofs).
I will likely look into autofs again at some point when I get a bit more time. Right now
my goal was to get this system up and running so using something I'm familiar with
expidites that.
Bob
>
> Peace,
> david
> --
> David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org
> "The Senate has abdicated its constitutional duty during the impeachment
> trial of President Donald Trump." -- Alan S. Frumin, parliamentarian
> emeritus of the US Senate
>
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