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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:25:20 +0000
From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
To: Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com>, David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com
Subject: Re: What happenend to amd?
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On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 05:45:10AM +0000, Rob Snow wrote:
> David Wolfskill wrote:
> 
> > >Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 18:14:23 -0700
> > >From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
> >
> > >I'm looking for amd, the automounter, on my 2.2.6 distribution, and can't
> > >find it in either ports or packages.  I also can't find it on freebsd.org
> > >web pages.  Wha'sup?
> >
> > Seems to be part of the base system on the 2.2.6 boxen here.
> >
> > david
> > --
> > David Wolfskill         UNIX System Administrator
> > dhw@whistle.com         voice: (650) 577-7158   pager: (650) 371-4621
> > `v
> >
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> Speaking of amd, what happened to the development of it?  It seems to have
> died about 2-3 years ago.

The developers realised what they had spawned, and crept off to live in a
cave on a mountain somewhere :)  The manpage has it exactly right when it
says:

"A weird imagination is most useful to gain full advantage of all the
features."

Still, it does the job admirably well:  here we have several hundred
machines, 5 different OSes, all automounting madly from a mixed bag of
FreeBSD/SunOS/Solaris servers.  I've only ever seen it die due to pilot
error, which is more than you can say for Sun's efforts in the same line.

	Scott

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