Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:46:16 -0600 (CST) From: David Fleck <david.fleck@mchsi.com> To: Rob <nospam@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd documentation: why is it so confusing? Message-ID: <20031203203647.C4195@grond.sourballs.org> In-Reply-To: <3FCD5054.5040902@users.sourceforge.net> References: <3FCD5054.5040902@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Rob wrote: > However, I am getting totally stuck in the amd manuals. Are the amd manuals > really that bad, or is it me? > > For example: > The FreeBSD handbook mentions amd in one sentence, by referring to the > manual pages of amd and amd.conf. So all I have are the manual pages > on the amd commands and files. The amd manual talks about a map file, > but there's nowhere information to be found on what the structure of > such a map file is. > > Is the creation of the amd-map file too trivial, or so complicated that > nobody dares explaining it....? > > Anyone who can point me to better help on this? While FreeBSD's man pages are usually extremely detailed, I have found that there is a layer of documentation - more complex and detailed than the Handbook, but more generalized and less in-depth than the man pages - that is simply missing in the FreeBSD world. The layer that would be occupied in Linux-land by the HOWTOs is made up of scattered web pages, mailing lists like this one, and newsgroups. Anyway, I found this very helpful for automounting: http://www.daemonnews.org/200202/automounting.html below is my /etc/amd.map file, which mounts 2 CD-ROM drives, a floppy, and a Zip drive. (Pretty much just like the article above.) # $FreeBSD: src/etc/amd.map,v 1.8 1999/09/13 17:09:07 peter Exp $ # /defaults type:=host;fs:=${autodir}/${rhost}/host;rhost:=${key} * opts:=rw,grpid,resvport,vers=2,proto=udp,nosuid,nodev localhost type:=auto;fs:=${map};pref:=${key}/ localhost/cdrom type:=program;fs:=/mnt/cdrom;\ mount:="/sbin/mount mount /mnt/cdrom";\ unmount:="/sbin/umount umount /mnt/cdrom" localhost/cdrom2 type:=program;fs:=/mnt/cdrom2;\ mount:="/sbin/mount mount /mnt/cdrom2";\ unmount:="/sbin/umount umount /mnt/cdrom2" localhost/zip type:=program;fs:=/mnt/zip;\ mount:="/sbin/mount mount /mnt/zip";\ unmount:="/sbin/umount umount /mnt/zip" localhost/floppy type:=program;fs:=/mnt/floppy;\ mount:="/sbin/mount mount /mnt/floppy";\ unmount:="/sbin/umount umount /mnt/floppy" -- David Fleck david.fleck@mchsi.com
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