automount vs Solaris

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> [041015 12:11] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> writes:
> 
> > * Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> [041014 08:55] wrote:
> > > Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On the other hand, there is this:
> > > > 
> > > >     http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/036786.html
> > > > 
> > > >     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1001154+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2004/cvs-all/20040905.cvs-all
> > > > 
> > > > so there will be autofs support in 5.3-RELEASE.
> > > 
> > > That's on 6.x, not 5.x; is there any reason to think it will get
> > > MFC'd?  [At all; I'd be surprised if release engineering okayed
> > > it for 5.3.]
> > 
> > I'll probably immediately MFC it after the release.
> > 
> > Since it works on 4.x I might even bring it back there.
> > 
> > The main issue is that no one has stepped forward to write
> > the glue between my autofs and amd(8).  I'm too busy right now.
> > 
> > You can have fun with /usr/share/examples/autofs/autodriver
> > if you want to expiriment or try your own.
> 
> I've got a deadline coming up, so I may have time to play with it
> after that.

That's awesome, if you find the time to do that it would be
much appreciated!

> In the meantime, I came up with the following bit of awk to translate
> the table syntax, for my fairly simple case:
> 
>   match($2,"/[^/]*$") { 
>       print substr($2, RSTART+1, RLENGTH) " \trhost:=" $1 ";rsf:="
>       substr($2, 1, RSTART-1) ;
>       print ""
>   }

So you're saying, you're using my autofs in a production environment?

Awesome!

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