On 16:40 09 Dec 2002, Tom Georgoulias <tom.georgoulias@motorola.com> wrote:
| Is there any way to do enable the ability to browse the mount points
| within an automount map, without having to cd into one of them? The
| behavior demonstrated below isn't present in the newer releases of
| Solaris, but I'm not sure how/if I can eliminate it on RHL.
The autofs system doesn't supply this. Neither do some of the amd systems.
There are two core reasons for this:
- if you could browse them, then an accidental
echo /automountpoint/*
would for a mount of _everything_, for no purpose, at significant
time penalty (and enormous penalty if something is down)
- you can't do it at all for maps with wildcards
Generally I have found that it is better to ask yourself _exactly_ why
you want this facility (yes I know it'd be "nice"); there is usually a
better or at least alternative way to get the information you want.
For example, in automounts I _want_ browsable, I tend to maintain a _real_
directory populated with symlinks to names in the automount directory. I
did this for the CD jukebox I built here a couple of months back. For
most things you can write a trivial shell script to keep a forest of
symlinks up to date, and that generally is enough.
Cheers,
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- Rich Kulawiec
Any sufficiently advanced feature is indistinguishable from a bug.
- Greg Alexander's corollary <galexand@indiana.edu>
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