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From: alek@spatial.com ( Alek O. Komarnitsky )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Does HP-UX 8.0 have an NFS automounter?
Message-ID: <1991May25.230916.25255@spatial.com>
Date: 25 May 91 23:09:16 GMT
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In article <1991May23.170532.7988@rathe.cs.umn.edu> ian@rathe.cs.umn.edu (Ian Hogg) writes:
>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 use amd in our multi-vendor network (DEC, HP, IBM, SGI, Sun) and
it works like a champ (we use the Sun Automounter on those machines).
There is a bug that causes it to "lose" filesystems if more than
one is exported, but one can fix (spell that k-l-u-d-g-e) that, and
the author has assured me that the next release will provide a 
real fix for this (but hey, who needs to worry about multiple
file systems/partitions from HP systems  :-)

FYI: We do not use the more advanced features of amd, but it sound like
both Bruce Walton at MIT and myself are happy users of it.


Alek Komarnitsky                                      303-449-0649
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alek@spatial.com                                      Boulder, CO 80301-5704