shortcuts and AMD

shortcuts and AMD

[Paul Furness]

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.

Re: shortcuts and AMD

[Paul Furness]

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.

shell web frontend

[Miguel González Castaños]

dear all,

 I am looking for any kind of way of accessing to a linux server through 
a proxy with only HTTP traffic enabled.

 I have found a few of them PHP based, but they cannot execute 
interactive commands...
 
 Is there any other tool that can be useful? I know about the security 
concerns... I just have to have a linux box where
I could connect to other servers...

 Many thanks in advance

 Miguel

Re: shell web frontend

[The Daemon Balrog]

	Try webmin (http://www.webmin.com). It has web interfaces (http or
https) to execute commands or access the shell, very easy, very good.

Balrog.

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 12:34, Miguel González Castaños wrote:
> dear all,
> 
>  I am looking for any kind of way of accessing to a linux server through 
> a proxy with only HTTP traffic enabled.
> 
>  I have found a few of them PHP based, but they cannot execute 
> interactive commands...
>  
>  Is there any other tool that can be useful? I know about the security 
> concerns... I just have to have a linux box where
> I could connect to other servers...
> 
>  Many thanks in advance
> 
>  Miguel
> 
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Re: shell web frontend

[terry white]

on "10-15-2002" "The Daemon Balrog" writ:

: 	Try webmin (http://www.webmin.com). It has web interfaces (http or
: https) to execute commands or access the shell, very easy, very good.

... ciao:

    security problems have been reported with 'webmin'.  i would suggest
a search of 'securityfocus.com' before you deploy ...


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