Re: shortcuts and AMD

[Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>]

Forgot to mention: I'm using bash. I did try a number of other shells
but get the same problem.


On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 14:21, Paul Furness wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have an ongoing problem which is really annoying. When my home dir is
> mounted using AMD, some apps report the full real path to the mount
> point, not the virtual one.
> 
> In other words, if I open a terminal window and do "pwd" I get this:
> 
> /.automount/x4/a/x4/home/paul
> 
> when I want to get this:
> 
> /home/paul
> 
> Interestingly, if I open the terminal and then do "cd" I end up where I
> expect - in /home/paul
> 
> 
> Here's a bit more tech info:
> 
> I have a server (running RH6.2) which serves home directories using NFS
> version 2.0 shares (I'm planing to migrate the servers to Redhat 7.3 and
> NFS 3 at some point soon). When I log in on a workstation, AMD
> automounts my home directory for me on the workstation concerned. There
> are varous workstation versions, but they are all either am-utils-6.0.3
> or am-utils-6.0.7. They all exhibit the problem.
> 
> The amd.conf file is more or less all defaults, and the amd.home file
> (which is shared using NIS) has just this in it:
> 
> #defaults
> /defaults      \
> opts:=rw,intr,grpid,hard,nosuid,quota,proto=udp;type:=nfs
> 
> #general users
> *       host==x4;type:=link;fs:=/a/x4/home;sublink:=${key} || \
>         rhost:=x4;rfs:=/a/x4/home;sublink:=${key}
> 
> 
> Admittedly, I didn't create this set up - it was here when I arrived,
> and I'm only just now looking at changing it. I looked at AMD docs and
> then a book about it, so I believe that the "general users" line is
> saying: If the user logs in to x4 (the server with home dirs on it) then
> make a link to their home directory in /home. Otherwise, mount it using
> NFS, but if more users log in, don't create a new mount for each of
> them; just use the one already there and link to it.
> 
> 
> This problem is actually even worse in tcsh because it reports the full
> path in the prompt (by default).
> 
> 
> Anyone seen this? Anyone know where or how to stop it happening?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul Furness
> 
> Systems Manager
> 
> 2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2.
> 
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Paul Furness

Systems Manager

2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2.