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From: matt@bacchus.esa.oz (Matt Atterbury)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: amd - questions on how to use
Message-ID: <MATT.90Dec4094036@percy.bacchus.esa.oz>
Date: 3 Dec 90 23:40:36 GMT
Sender: matt@bacchus.esa.oz.au
Distribution: comp
Organization: Expert Solutions Australia.
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	Hello all,

	I've got some [simple] questions about how to use amd (Jan-Simon
	Pendry's AutoMount Daemon):

	I think I'm trying to do the sort of thing that is simple with a
	straight mount command: mount a remote file system at a fixed
	place, except that the local target either already exists, or its
	parent directory already exists.

	What we basically need is the same as our /etc/fstab, except that
	instead of forcing some directories (eg. /usr/man) to come from
	node 'A', they can come from node 'A', or 'B', or 'C'.

	I'm not sure if the problem is because I ported amd to our Sony's
	(and stuffed it?) or because I don't know how to use amd.

	Say I have an existing /usr directory, and I want to auto-mount a
	/usr/man directory from another machine. I have tried setting up
	an amd file for /usr but I can't work out how to tell it to use
	all existing sub-directories but mount /usr/man, nor can I get the
	direct filesystem to work for /usr/man (as described on page 14 of
	JSP's Amd documentation).

	I have also tried [and failed] a similar set-up except that the
	directory I'm trying to mount already exists (eg. I have a
	/usr/man directory but I want to mount over the top of it).

	I have managed to do some of the examples from JSP's doco
	(specifically the ones regarding /homes), but I haven't had a lot
	of luck so far. I would grateful if someone could send me an
	example config file for a small workstation config similar to ours:

		5 x SONY 1750 Workstations, running SonyOS 3.3a (~ SunOS).

		3 are disked (260Mb), 2 have 40Mb disks with basic OS only so
		need to mount things like /usr/local, /usr/man, /usr/staff,
		etc, although the 'important' stuff of /usr is already there.

	Many thanks ...
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