Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 08:27:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: amd <long> Message-ID: <XFMail.000814082739.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008111358500.3488-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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On 11-Aug-00 keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > Having a problem getting up and rolling with amd. I'll admit up front that > the amd.conf and amd manuals don't work well with my brain and is more > then a little confusing if not vague. For instance in the man page for > amd.conf it says the following. > auto_dir (string, default=/a) Same as the -a option to amd. This sets the > private directory where amd will create sub-directories for its real mount > points. > > The man page for amd says the following for the -a option. > -a temporary-directory > Specify an alternative location for the real mount points. The default is > /a. > > I don't even know what a temporary direcroty is or why you would need one. > I thought it would work much like simply mounting a remote fs with the > mount command and it would put it where specified. Currently I can get a > local cdrom to mount but it's all screwy in how it does it. I'm sure it's > me so I'm not slamming amd on this just not understanding the whole > process and sequence of events of mounting with amd. I have very simple > conf files for this. And quite possitive they are screwed up somehow. Here > they are. > > /etc/amd.conf > [ global ] > auto_dir = /a > log_file = /var/log/amd > log_options = all > map_type = file > search_path = /etc > [/cdrom] > map_name = amd.cdrom > browsable_dirs = yes > > /etc/amd.cdrom > cdrom type:=program;\ > mount:="/sbin/mount mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom";\ > unmount:="/sbin/umount umount -f /cdrom" > > Thing is, I cd into /cdrom and there is another dir in there named cdrom > inwhich I have to cd into that one to get to the cd. BUT, once I cd back > out of the directory I can go straight into /cdrom and the cdrom directory > that was in there is now gone and the cd contents are shown. Confussion > abounds. Thanks for any pointers. Sorry for the long mail. > > Keith > I use this: /etc/amd.conf [ global ] normalize_hostnames = no print_pid = no restart_mounts = yes #auto_dir = /n log_file = /var/log/amd log_options = all #debug_options = all plock = no cache_duration = 6 dismount_interval = 20 selectors_on_default = yes # config.guess picks up "sunos5" and I don't want to edit my maps yet os = sos5 # if you print_version after setting up "os", it will show it. print_version = no map_type = file search_path = /etc/amdmaps:/usr/lib/amd:/usr/local/AMD/lib browsable_dirs = yes [ /a ] map_name = amd.cdrom Then in /etc/amdmaps/amd.cdrom: cdrom type:=cdfs;fs:=/cdrom;dev:=/dev/wcd0c;opts:=ro cd /a/cdrom then does what it is supposed to. (It took me a LONG time reading the 4.4BSD automounter manual before getting this far:( /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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