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To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
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Subject: Re: Automounting drives
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Ya guys are the best. Thanks for your patience. 

Once again, I forgot to take a look at the mailing lists archives, but
I guess that I'm fogiven now.. :))

CU

--- Big Brother told Doug Barton to write, at 13:59 of February 13:
> Spidey wrote:
> > 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I am searching for a program or hack to the capability to do have my
> > /cdrom or /floppy mounted automatically as I need them.
> 
> 	I recently sent this response to the list, however the mail archives
> are down, so here you go.
> 
>         Well, the mail archives have some very interesting tidbits, as
> do
> various other sites. One extremely helpful reference is the
> documentation
> available through gnu info ('info amd') and/or the URL
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bsd/amdref.html. 
> 
>         The thing about amd is that everyone has their own way of doing
> things. Personally I prefer the approach of putting all the details in
> amd.conf rather than on the command line. I have cobbled together the
> following to do what you mention here, YMMV. 
> 
> rc.conf.local:
> amd_enable="YES"                # Run amd service with $amd_flags (or
> NO).
> amd_flags="-F /etc/amd.conf"
> 
> /etc/amd.conf:
> [ global ]
> # Only search for maps of this type
> map_type =               file
> 
> # Search this path for maps
> search_path =            /etc
> 
> # Use this directory for amd's private mount points
> auto_dir =               /usr/amd/realmounts
> 
> # Check /etc/hosts for hostnames
> normalize_hostnames =   yes
> 
> # Lock the amd process into memory, improves perf.
> plock =                 no
> 
> # Use the special /default entry in maps
> selectors_on_default =   yes
> 
> log_file =              /var/log/amd.log
> log_options =            all
> 
> # DEFINE AN AMD MOUNT POINT
> [ /mnt/auto ]
> map_name =              amd.mnta
> 
> /etc/amd.mnta:
> /defaults       type:=program;fs:=${autodir}/auto/${key};\
>                 unmount:="/sbin/umount umount ${fs}"
> 
> cdrom           mount:="/sbin/mount mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ${fs}";\
>                 opts:=ro
> 
> floppyd         mount:="/sbin/mount mount -t msdos /dev/fd0c ${fs}"
> 
> 
>         You can obviously change the amd mount point (/mnt/auto) and the
> physical mount point (/usr/amd/realmounts/auto) if you want to. Whatever
> directories you choose, make sure that you create them before you try to
> use amd. It is probably not necessary to bury the real mount points so
> far
> in the filesystem anymore, my configuration is a leftover from the "bad
> old days" when a stuck mount would prevent you from doing anything on
> the
> system because the getcwd() function would hang on the mount if it was
> in
> a top level directory. On the other hand, since you only have to deal
> with
> this directory once in a blue moon, I haven't bothered to change it. 
> 
>         I hope that this helps you get started, and provides some
> examples
> as to how amd works. It should go without saying that to automount (and
> read) a regular cdrom you would do 'ls /mnt/auto/cdrom' for example.
> Same
> goes for a DOS floppy, via 'ls /mnt/auto/floppyd'. 
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Doug
> -- 
> "Welcome to the desert of the real." 
> 
>     - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix"

-- 
Si l'image donne l'illusion de savoir
C'est que l'adage pretend que pour croire,
L'important ne serait que de voir

Lofofora


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