Date: 15 Oct 2004 15:11:52 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: automount vs Solaris Message-ID: <443c0fzthj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20041014165827.GI29177@elvis.mu.org> References: <200410072252.i97Mqifa084091@wattres.Watt.COM> <20041008084627.GA48159@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <44vfdds39q.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20041014165827.GI29177@elvis.mu.org>
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Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> writes: > * Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> [041014 08:55] wrote: > > Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes: > > > > > On the other hand, there is this: > > > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/036786.html > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1001154+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2004/cvs-all/20040905.cvs-all > > > > > > so there will be autofs support in 5.3-RELEASE. > > > > That's on 6.x, not 5.x; is there any reason to think it will get > > MFC'd? [At all; I'd be surprised if release engineering okayed > > it for 5.3.] > > I'll probably immediately MFC it after the release. > > Since it works on 4.x I might even bring it back there. > > The main issue is that no one has stepped forward to write > the glue between my autofs and amd(8). I'm too busy right now. > > You can have fun with /usr/share/examples/autofs/autodriver > if you want to expiriment or try your own. I've got a deadline coming up, so I may have time to play with it after that. In the meantime, I came up with the following bit of awk to translate the table syntax, for my fairly simple case: match($2,"/[^/]*$") { print substr($2, RSTART+1, RLENGTH) " \trhost:=" $1 ";rsf:=" substr($2, 1, RSTART-1) ; print "" }
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