multiple hostnames in automounter table

multiple hostnames in automounter table

[Al Alder]

Are there any plans for the automounter to be able to handle multiple
hostnames in the automount table for Linux?  With Mandrake 10.0 the
automount daemon will not mount an entry that has multiple hostnames.
On Red Hat Enterprise 3.0, it gives a warning, but will mount using the
first hostname, is this functionality a RedHat thing that hasn't been shared
with the rest of the community or is Mandrake 10.0 just using a 
different/older
version?  Is there anyway around this problem, or to get Mandrake automount
to mount the first hostname? 

Your help is appreciated.

-- 

Later,

Al Alder
aalder@ti.com
214/480-3996

Re: multiple hostnames in automounter table

[Jeff Moyer]

==> Regarding [autofs] multiple hostnames in automounter table; Al Alder <aalder@ti.com> adds:

aalder> Are there any plans for the automounter to be able to handle
aalder> multiple hostnames in the automount table for Linux?  With Mandrake
aalder> 10.0 the automount daemon will not mount an entry that has multiple
aalder> hostnames.  On Red Hat Enterprise 3.0, it gives a warning, but will
aalder> mount using the first hostname, is this functionality a RedHat
aalder> thing that hasn't been shared with the rest of the community or is
aalder> Mandrake 10.0 just using a different/older version?  Is there
aalder> anyway around this problem, or to get Mandrake automount to mount
aalder> the first hostname?

aalder> Your help is appreciated.

RHEL 3 uses a heavily patched autofs-3.1.7.  Most of the changes made by
Red Hat have been incorporated in autofs-4.x.y by Ian.  I try to involve
Ian and the list in all of the changes I make to the automounter.  The only
times I don't are when I get rediculous user requests that I am obligated
to fulfill.

Having said that, I'm guessing what you want is replicated server
functionality?  I would suggest starting with the README.replicated-server
file in the autofs 4 userspace package.  Hopefully it does what you need it
to do.


Regards,
Jeff

Re: multiple hostnames in automounter table

[raven]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jeff Moyer wrote:

> ==> Regarding [autofs] multiple hostnames in automounter table; Al Alder <aalder@ti.com> adds:
> 
> aalder> Are there any plans for the automounter to be able to handle
> aalder> multiple hostnames in the automount table for Linux?  With Mandrake
> aalder> 10.0 the automount daemon will not mount an entry that has multiple
> aalder> hostnames.  On Red Hat Enterprise 3.0, it gives a warning, but will
> aalder> mount using the first hostname, is this functionality a RedHat
> aalder> thing that hasn't been shared with the rest of the community or is
> aalder> Mandrake 10.0 just using a different/older version?  Is there
> aalder> anyway around this problem, or to get Mandrake automount to mount
> aalder> the first hostname?
> 
> aalder> Your help is appreciated.
> 
> RHEL 3 uses a heavily patched autofs-3.1.7.  Most of the changes made by
> Red Hat have been incorporated in autofs-4.x.y by Ian.  I try to involve
> Ian and the list in all of the changes I make to the automounter.  The only
> times I don't are when I get rediculous user requests that I am obligated
> to fulfill.
> 
> Having said that, I'm guessing what you want is replicated server
> functionality?  I would suggest starting with the README.replicated-server
> file in the autofs 4 userspace package.  Hopefully it does what you need it
> to do.

Yes. As Jeff says.

But there has been quite a bit of work done relating to side effects 
from the initial implementation of the replicated functionality by myself 
and Jeff. So this functionality is still stabilising. Hopefully the next 
release will see that work complete.

Ian

Re: multiple hostnames in automounter table

[Al Alder]

Ian,

Thank you for your reply.  You guys do great work. 

-- 
Later,
Al
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Al Alder      | TI Email: aalder@ti.com
Texas Instruments | phone: (214) 480-3996 

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 raven@themaw.net wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> 
> > ==> Regarding [autofs] multiple hostnames in automounter table; Al Alder <aalder@ti.com> adds:
> > 
> > aalder> Are there any plans for the automounter to be able to handle
> > aalder> multiple hostnames in the automount table for Linux?  With Mandrake
> > aalder> 10.0 the automount daemon will not mount an entry that has multiple
> > aalder> hostnames.  On Red Hat Enterprise 3.0, it gives a warning, but will
> > aalder> mount using the first hostname, is this functionality a RedHat
> > aalder> thing that hasn't been shared with the rest of the community or is
> > aalder> Mandrake 10.0 just using a different/older version?  Is there
> > aalder> anyway around this problem, or to get Mandrake automount to mount
> > aalder> the first hostname?
> > 
> > aalder> Your help is appreciated.
> > 
> > RHEL 3 uses a heavily patched autofs-3.1.7.  Most of the changes made by
> > Red Hat have been incorporated in autofs-4.x.y by Ian.  I try to involve
> > Ian and the list in all of the changes I make to the automounter.  The only
> > times I don't are when I get rediculous user requests that I am obligated
> > to fulfill.
> > 
> > Having said that, I'm guessing what you want is replicated server
> > functionality?  I would suggest starting with the README.replicated-server
> > file in the autofs 4 userspace package.  Hopefully it does what you need it
> > to do.
> 
> Yes. As Jeff says.
> 
> But there has been quite a bit of work done relating to side effects 
> from the initial implementation of the replicated functionality by myself 
> and Jeff. So this functionality is still stabilising. Hopefully the next 
> release will see that work complete.
> 
> Ian
> 
>