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- From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
- Subject: Re: amd
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:03:40 GMT
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- svpillay@berlioz.crs4.it (Kanthan Pillay) writes:
- >the IBM
- >automounter now *mostly* supports direct mounts. (It does not work if
- >the mount point is itself nfs mounted, which happens with our /usr
- >clients.)
-
- You are being to general I think.
-
- >* If it's only the "direct" capability that you want, then the IBM
- >automounter (after the above fixes) will be good enough. (Unless you
- >want to do something really *stupid* like automount /usr/local on a
- >/usr client. Why on earth would anyone want to do that?)
-
- This probably is not working because your /usr is mounted readonly.
- automount needs to be able to create a symlink in /usr called 'local'
- and he can't since /usr is readonly.
-
- You should be able to work around this with symlinks etc.
- Create a symlink on the /usr server so that /usr/local points to
- say '/tmp/userlocal' which is an automount directory, so you get
- what you want.
-
- See?
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