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Date: Sun 29-Jan-1990 19:02:04 From: Unknown Subject: AUTONFSMOUNT There is a binary "autonfsmount" in /usr/etc. I have not been able to find any documentation, although the name is very suggestive. Anyone able to point me towards info on this routine? Thanx, Dave Rocks rocks@nmsu.edu >From: bob@hobbes.osc.edu (Bob Marshall)
Date: Sun 29-Jan-1990 21:17:30 From: Unknown Subject: Re: AUTONFSMOUNT In article <508@opus.NMSU.EDU> rocks@nmsu.edu (Dave Rocks) writes: > > There is a binary "autonfsmount" in /usr/etc. I have not been able > to find any documentation, although the name is very suggestive. > Anyone able to point me towards info on this routine? > > Thanx, > Dave Rocks > rocks@nmsu.edu In article <508@opus.NMSU.EDU> rocks@nmsu.edu (Dave Rocks) writes: > > There is a binary "autonfsmount" in /usr/etc. I have not been able > to find any documentation, although the name is very suggestive. > Anyone able to point me towards info on this routine? > > Thanx, > Dave Rocks > rocks@nmsu.edu It appears to do the same thing as Sun's automount, which is to mount NFS directories when a file is accessed. From Sun's manual page: NAME automount - automatically mount NFS file systems SYNOPSIS automount [ -mnT ] [ -tl duration ] [ -tm interval ] [ -tw interval ] [ directory mapname [ -mount-options ] ] ... DESCRIPTION automount is a daemon that will automatically and tran- sparently mount an NFS file system whenever a file or direc- tory within in that system is opened. automount forks a daemon, which appears to be an NFS server to the kernel; lookups on the specified directory are intercepted by this daemon, which uses the map contained in mapname to determine a server, exported file system, and appropriate mount options for a given file system. The named map can either be a file on the local system, or a Yellow Page map. directory is a full pathname starting with a `/'. A string in NeXT's /usr/etc/autonfsmount reveals: I tried using autonfsmount on a NeXT and it works, but is appears to work the same way the Sun 4.0 automount worked, which is to mount the file systems in /tmp_mnt under a random name (for example: dallas> mount hardy:/net/hardy on /private/tmp_mnt/auto1002710 type nfs (rw) ... The Sun 4.0.1 automount instead uses the mount point to get consistent names across mounts aslan> mount hardy:/net/hardy on /tmp_mnt/net/hardy type nfs (rw) Automounting is very useful for installations with many NFS file systems, I hope that NeXT will get update and document "autonfsmount" soon. Bob Marshall Ohio Supercomputer Graphics Project bob@osgp.osc.edu 1224 Kinnear Rd. Columbus, Ohio 43212 -=- Bob Marshall Ohio Supercomputer Graphics Project bob@osgp.osc.edu 1224 Kinnear Rd. Columbus, Ohio 43212 >From: DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu (Dwaine VanBibber)
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