[RHCE] Re: autofs question - should automounted directory exist or not?

[Wolf Dreamer]

Please see below... 

Jeremy Portzer writes: 

> I assume technical questions are game on this list, as long as the
> correspond to potential RHCE topics?  If not, please ignore. 
> 
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> 
> Has anyone here used or played around with autofs / automountd? 
> 
> In the RHL 8.0 _Customization Guide_, there's a brief section:
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-nfs-mount.html 
> 
> Quoting from the bottom of this page:
> "The first field in /etc/auto.misc is the name of the /misc
> subdirectory. This directory is created dynamically by automount. It
> should not actually exist on the client machine." 
> 
> But then the very next paragraph says: 
> 
> "Note 
> 
> "The directory /misc must exist on the local file system. There should
> be no subdirectories in /misc on the local file system. " 
> 
> So which is correct?  Does the automounted sub-directory, /misc need to
> be created or not?  Is this a documentation error or am I missing
> something completely here?

I would think having them on each client machine is the best way to make it 
work.  I have that file on each machine. If you are using a information 
service like NIS, NIS+ or LDAP-it would only work if each machine were 
exactly the same-and that is not the case for me-even on the cluster.