From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Oct 27 3:21:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (mailhub.fokus.gmd.de [193.174.154.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13CCD37B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 03:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100]) by mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02584; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:21:52 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:21:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt To: Doug Barton Cc: Harti Brandt , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/22308: mounting NFS during boot blocks if host map comesfrom NIS In-Reply-To: <39F93B99.F7CBF673@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > 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. Well, we have around 150 suns with automount, 2 PC's with FreeBSD, a lot of Linux and windows boxes. I'm the only one who can't use the automount maps and I'm NOT the sysadmin. That would mean I have to track the changes in the maps made by our admin people. Out of the 60+ file systems they export I need 10 or so - mounting them during boot worked just fine up to now (and works still after changing the order in nsswitch.conf). It seems impractical for me to bother with amd in this situation. My thought was: if it worked before why shouldn't it work now? After pooking around what really happens I decided to put the three machines I get NFS from into /etc/hosts. That's easier than fighting with amd. I can't figure out what change caused the new behaviour, however... > 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. I would at least make live easier for some people. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.gmd.de, harti@begemot.org, lhbrandt@mail.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message