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From: bruce@ai.mit.edu (Bruce Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Does HP-UX 8.0 have an NFS automounter?
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Date: 24 May 91 11:54:23 GMT
References: <1991May1.112644.20929@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <60008@hpfcse.HP.COM> <1991May23.170532.7988@rathe.cs.umn.edu>
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In article <1991May23.170532.7988@rathe.cs.umn.edu> ian@rathe.cs.umn.edu (Ian Hogg) writes:
>In article <60008@hpfcse.HP.COM> stuartj@hpfcse.HP.COM (Stuart Jarriel) writes:
>>I have been told that HPUX 8.0 does NOT have automounter.
>>I have customers in town who  MUST have it, but In general,
>>is it required or not?  I am trying to get some 
>>concensus.
>
>All I did was looki at the documentation, but there is a freely available
>automounter called amd.  Has anyone here tried running it on HP?
>

We have amd running here on HP/UX 7.05.  It can use yellow pages for getting
automount maps, in fact, the manpage says it was "designed as a value-added
replacement for the SunOS 4 automount program".

We still run automount on the suns.  The amd YP maps are maintained by an
awk script which builds them from the automount YP maps.  The amd maps get
regenerated whenever the automount maps change.

A nice solution to the problem, and you don't have to wait for HP/UX to come
up with something similar in 8.0.

			-bruce.





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