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  From: Adam Hawes <adam@overfiend.freeservers.com>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 13:08:47 +0000

Automounter

Hi All.

I am interested in using the Automounter (autofs package) that ships
with redhat 5.2. I have installed the package and configured the files
to suit my system (see below) and started the daemon by issuing
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start" as root. This starts the daemon and
no errors are detected. All is good :-)

However, the point is that I can cd to /misc/floppy (for example) and
ask for a listing (ls) and nothing happens. How do I get the autofs
daemon to actually mount the filesystem? I have tried making the
appropriate directories within the /misc tree as well, and it
fails me.

A simple explanation of HOW to get this to work would be very much
appreciated.

Also, to save an email, does anyone know of an FTP program that supports
batch uploading of an entire directory structure and only uploads the
files within the structure that have changes since last upload??

Thanks in advance, 
Adam

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/etc/autofs.master:

# $Id: auto.master,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:03 hpa Exp $
# Sample auto.master file
# Format of this file:
# mountpoint map options
# For details of the format look at autofs(8).
/misc   /etc/auto.misc  --timeout 30 

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/etc/autofs.misc:

# $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:04 hpa Exp $
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage

cdrom           -fstype=iso9660,ro      :/dev/cdrom
floppy          -fstype=auto            :/dev/fd0


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  Flinders University                  adam@overfiend.freeservers.com
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