Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 22:16:01 -0500 From: Jason Garrett <kingedgar@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Autofs howto Message-ID: <970380130905072016gecc607cr1e5401d8e396366b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <F85DE35BBF59C10393E79E1E@utd65257.utdallas.edu> References: <20090507035523.GA6073@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <F85DE35BBF59C10393E79E1E@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
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On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:14, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> wrote:
> --On Wednesday, May 06, 2009 22:55:23 -0500 Michel Talon <
> talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>
>
>> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>
>> I'm wondering if I can use autofs on FreeBSD. Last time I asked the
>>> question someone said I need amd, which I found rather cryptic.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed it is cryptic, let me gave an example which works:
>>
>> niobe% cat /etc/amd.conf
>> [global]
>> auto_dir = /.amd
>> log_file = /var/log/amd.log
>> log_options = error,fatal,user
>> map_type = file
>> search_path = /etc
>> [/Cd]
>> map_name = amd.cdrom
>> # For nfs mounts
>> [/Net]
>> map_name = amd.net
>>
>>
>>
>> niobe% cat /etc/amd.cdrom
>> cdrom type:=cdfs;opts:=ro,nosuid;dev:=/dev/acd0;fs:=${autodir}/cdrom
>>
>>
>> niobe% cat /etc/amd.net
>> /defaults type:=host;fs:=${autodir}/${rhost};rhost:=${key}
>> * opts:=rw,grpid,resvport,nosuid,nodev,soft
>>
>> Now some comments. I use amd without options so it just uses
>> /etc/amd.conf to configure itself. When you try to access /Cd
>> it uses the configuration in /etc/amd.cdrom, and if you try to access
>> /Net it uses the configuration in /etc/amd.net.
>>
>> Finally if you try to access /Net/ada for example, the key is ada, and
>> so is the remote host. It is queried for NFS mounts and everything is
>> mounted. After
>> niobe% cd /Net/ada
>> i have:
>> niobe% df
>> ...
>> ada:/ada 36196652 26972064 7356232 79% /.amd/ada/ada
>> ada:/ada1 287391356 246682696 26109996 90% /.amd/ada/ada1
>> ada:/ada2 288362876 180649856 93064956 66% /.amd/ada/ada2
>> ada:/ada3 99188500 80794628 13273960 86% /.amd/ada/ada3
>> ada:/adm 36204684 1682772 32653156 5% /.amd/ada/adm
>>
>> Note that autodir is /.amd and fs is ${autodir}/${rhost} as you can
>> see.
>>
>> Getting out of /Net/ada those mounts are unmounted.
>>
>> I hope this helps explaining some of the mysteries of amd.
>>
>>
> Indeed it does, and I thank you very much for that example.
>
While cryptic, It has worked well for me with multiple FreeBSD and Linux
hosts on my network.
>
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> Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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