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- From: yedidya@bimacs.BITNET (Yedidya Israel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: auto.direct yellow-pages map
- Message-ID: <4483@bimacs.BITNET>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 13:26:06 GMT
- References: <110@ferrari.dsp.hellnet.org> <lgfsmdINN7va@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Organization: Math department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, ISRAEL
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- In article <lgfsmdINN7va@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> brent@terra.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
- >In article 110@ferrari.dsp.hellnet.org, ori@ferrari.dsp.hellnet.org (Ori Chalak) writes:
- >>
- >>We use SunOS 4.1.1.
- >>Whenever I update the "auto.direct" yellow pages map,
- >>I need to reboot the clients for they will be able to "see" the change.
- >>I tried reinvoke automount, but it didn't help. Only "fastboot" on client helps.
-
- Direct maps were always a problem, even in Amd it is not implemented.
- The same it is circumvented with Amd it can be made with Sun's
- automounter.
-
- Prepare a direct map, make it represent the mount point /a.direct and
- leave symbolic links all over the system to point to it :-( Not a
- perfect but should work.
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