auto.net missing in autofs 5.0.4-4

V01D · 2009-04-30 03:26:15

Is there any reason why auto.net isn't provided anymore. The diff on the PKGBUILD clearly shows the auto.net not being installed anymore. Why is that? I use this functionality.

lacteus · 2009-05-11 20:04:32

Up.
Same question for me.
Why is auto.net missing ?

It is very useful for auto-mounting NFS shares.

sesamemucho · 2009-05-13 16:10:35

See this http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12768 for why auto.net was removed. As for the why of the why, I think it relates to the new autofs being version 5 instead of version 4 (Google for "autofs5"), and the old auto.net isn't needed or doesn't work anymore. I've got my single nfs mount working with the following:

In /etc/autofs/auto.master:

/media/net      /etc/autofs/auto.nfsmnt

and in /etc/autofs/auto.nfsmnt:

foo -rw,async,hard,intr,noatime,user hostname:/nfs-foo

where hostname is the name of the nfs server, /nfs-foo is the shared directory on hostname, and the directory will be mounted on /media/net/foo

It looks like the new autofs has a much easier way of doing nfs mounting than version 4, but I haven't gotten around to looking into it yet.

S.

V01D · 2009-05-13 22:45:42

sesamemucho wrote:

See this http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12768 for why auto.net was removed. As for the why of the why, I think it relates to the new autofs being version 5 instead of version 4 (Google for "autofs5"), and the old auto.net isn't needed or doesn't work anymore. I've got my single nfs mount working with the following:
In /etc/autofs/auto.master:
/media/net      /etc/autofs/auto.nfsmnt
and in /etc/autofs/auto.nfsmnt:
foo -rw,async,hard,intr,noatime,user hostname:/nfs-foo
where hostname is the name of the nfs server, /nfs-foo is the shared directory on hostname, and the directory will be mounted on /media/net/foo
It looks like the new autofs has a much easier way of doing nfs mounting than version 4, but I haven't gotten around to looking into it yet.
S.

Well... it isn't a matter of simplicity. Your version explicitly lists the server and mountpoint, auto.net allowed one to mount any directory from any server without explicitly listing it anywhere.

sesamemucho · 2009-05-14 01:28:45

Oops! Very sorry for being misleading. What I meant to show was just a way to get something going if someone were desperate for an NFS mount.

It looks like the new way to do it is to use -hosts:

In /etc/autofs/auto.master:

/your/mount/point -hosts

seems to give the same effect as auto.net. Put any mount options after the "-hosts".

V01D · 2009-05-14 01:58:03

sesamemucho wrote:

Oops! Very sorry for being misleading. What I meant to show was just a way to get something going if someone were desperate for an NFS mount.
It looks like the new way to do it is to use -hosts:
In /etc/autofs/auto.master:
/your/mount/point -hosts
seems to give the same effect as auto.net. Put any mount options after the "-hosts".

Absolutely great. Thanks a lot for that information. I think autofs/automount is one of the less documented systems I've seen in a long time. Out of curiosity, where did you find that information?

sesamemucho · 2009-05-14 03:11:50

V01D wrote:

sesamemucho wrote:
Oops! Very sorry for being misleading. What I meant to show was just a way to get something going if someone were desperate for an NFS mount.
It looks like the new way to do it is to use -hosts:
In /etc/autofs/auto.master:
/your/mount/point -hosts
seems to give the same effect as auto.net. Put any mount options after the "-hosts".
Absolutely great. Thanks a lot for that information. I think autofs/automount is one of the less documented systems I've seen in a long time. Out of curiosity, where did you find that information?

Yeah, it's kind of like an old-time oracle: once you already know the information, then you can understand the documentation! I checked around Google with various combinations of autofs, auto.net and nfs. I eventually found https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=197824. The first two comments showed me the light.

Dieter@be · 2009-06-13 12:20:38

After adding `/var/autofs/net -hosts` to my auto.master and restarting I get this in my daemon.log:

Jun 13 14:10:28 dieter-ws-a7n8x-arch automount[21742]: syntax error in nsswitch config near [ syntax error ]

See also http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14474

Edit: but hey it works otherwise

Last edited by Dieter@be (2009-06-13 12:45:40)

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#1 2009-04-30 03:26:15

auto.net missing in autofs 5.0.4-4

#2 2009-05-11 20:04:32

Re: auto.net missing in autofs 5.0.4-4

#3 2009-05-13 16:10:35

Re: auto.net missing in autofs 5.0.4-4

#4 2009-05-13 22:45:42

Re: auto.net missing in autofs 5.0.4-4

#5 2009-05-14 01:28:45

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#6 2009-05-14 01:58:03

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#7 2009-05-14 03:11:50

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#8 2009-06-13 12:20:38

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