From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 19:13:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB0516A4CE for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:13:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E6843D41 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:13:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id EDAD95C8FD; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:13:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:13:10 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Lowell Gilbert Message-ID: <20041015191310.GO29177@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> <443c0fzthj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <443c0fzthj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: automount vs Solaris X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:13:11 -0000 * Lowell Gilbert [041015 12:11] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > > * Lowell Gilbert [041014 08:55] wrote: > > > Matthew Seaman 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. That's awesome, if you find the time to do that it would be much appreciated! > 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 "" > } So you're saying, you're using my autofs in a production environment? Awesome! -- - Alfred Perlstein - Research Engineering Development Inc. - email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684