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? Message-ID: <19981113092520.E20936@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <364BC766.14E40519@lgc.com>; from Rob Snow on Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 05:45:10AM %2B0000 References: <199811130116.RAA00171@pau-amma.whistle.com> <364BC766.14E40519@lgc.com>
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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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > 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 -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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