From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 18 07:46:27 2003 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 E442837B401 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02AEE43F75 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:46:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tparquet@twcny.rr.com) Received: from twcny.rr.com (syr-24-59-143-77.twcny.rr.com [24.59.143.77]) h7IEkPs4026131 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:46:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F40E6C1.2070308@twcny.rr.com> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:46:25 -0400 From: Tom Parquette User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030805 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: automounter (amd) best practices question 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: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:46:28 -0000 I have amd running, after I figured out I had been misunderstanding the man pages, but I have some questions. I'm looking for some best practices insights. I looked for a howto and searched the questions archive but I didn't turn up what I was looking for. 1) I would like to remove /usr/src, /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles from some of my machine's fstab. I do the make buildworld, make buildkernel on one machine then run the make installworld, installkernel on the target machines. I looked at make.conf and some of the man pages but nothing jumped out at me. I'm trying to figure out how to prefix /host/Atlas onto the directory names so the installs will work. e.g. /usr/src becomes /host/Atlas/usr/src. 2) In this example, I want to keep the home directories on a server instead of having them on a workstation. My first thought was to change the home directory for the user on the workstation from /home/Tom to /host/Atlas/home/Tom. Is there a better way to do this? 3) If I ever decide to work in NIS, question #2 comes up again in the NIS environment. Normally I don't sign on to the server from the attached keyboard but it does happen occasionally. If I set up the home directory in NIS as /host/Atlas/home/Tom, then signon to the server locally (in other words, I do not SSH into it) is this a problem? I would think worst case it will not work. Best case I may have some overhead. I would appreciate any insights you can provide. Thanks.