From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 19 12:28:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C70137BBFF for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:28:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA51681; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:27:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38AEFCB4.52B45BD9@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:27:32 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Thyer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: autofs for FreeBSD ? References: <38ACC803.6BA72423@dsto.defence.gov.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Thyer wrote: > > Hi, > > I use -CURRENT and have a strong dislike for automount (as opposed > to autofs which is much nicer). While reading the following keep in mind that I'm not attempting to change your mind here. > Reasons (in no particular order): > > - it looks yucky What specifically is "yucky" about it? > - make world doesn't work when /usr/src and /usr/obj are actually > links to /a/blah/blah How exactly do you have this set up? I do this all the time. > - it makes FreeBSD look quite primitive in comparison to Solaris > (the competitor in my workplace). Primitive in what way? amd (which is not strictly a freebsd product btw) does more things than autofs is capable of. I regularly use both, and there are features of both that I like and dislike. However I can't help thinking that your argument here boils down to, "I want what I like and am used to, don't bother me with new things." Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message