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From: jag@cs.mu.oz.au (John Gilmour)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Auto-mounter
Message-ID: <7173@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 26 Mar 91 14:14:56 GMT
References: <5513@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <27EC1C6E.5742@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <27EC1C6E.5742@orion.oac.uci.edu>, iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
> In article <5513@vela.acs.oakland.edu> schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) writes:
> >1. Does the one that comes with Ultrix require yellow pages to 
> >   be running ? (we are using bind/hesiod)
> 
> No.  You can use a local file, YP, or both to drive automount.
> 
> >2. Is there a PD version out there on gatekeeper or uunet?
> 
> Yes, on usc.edu you can get amd.  It's supposed to be better than
> automount, but I haven't tried it yet.
 

If you run it on a MIPS machine you'll need to rebuild your kernel 
with a fixed nfs_subr.o module. 4.0 and 4.1 versions are available
from dip.cs.wisc.edu.


Plea to DEC: please fix this module, it's supposed to be  a simple fix.