From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Oct 27 1:24: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C56737B4C5 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA33378; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:23:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39F93B99.F7CBF673@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:23:53 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-102 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Harti Brandt Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/22308: mounting NFS during boot blocks if host map comesfrom NIS References: <200010270710.AAA77283@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Harti Brandt wrote: > Oh, our infrastructure here is on Solaris and they have automount maps. I > would like to use them, but no way. I tried to convert them automatically > to amd maps - doesn't work (they use variables). amd uses variables just fine. I have a mixed solaris and freebsd environment at work and I use variables in the autofs and amd maps both. > I tried to figure out how > to configure amd handish - I gave up after two days. But, I thought that > my set-up should be rather usual. Send some examples to freebsd-fs@freebsd.org. amd does have a learning curve, but it's not insurmountable. I wouldn't mind seeing autofs ported to freebsd, but I see it as a complement to amd, not a replacement. Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message