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From: stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: automount and symbolic links
Keywords: Software
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Date: 16 May 89 22:28:05 GMT
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We're running sunos 4.0.1.

This might save someone else a little flailing.

I was trying, unsuccessfully, to automount /usr/man from a server, using a
direct map; ie, automount /- /etc/auto.direct.  Onto where was I trying to
automount it?  Why /usr/man, of course!  That is, auto.direct contained

/usr/man	atlantic:/usr/man

Wrong!  /usr/man is a symbolic link (to /usr/share/man).  automount,
understandably, doesn't mount on it.  It also doesn't complain to the
user, though it does syslog the problem.  Unfortunately, the
syslog.conf(.master) on sun386i's ignores daemon.err messages; ie,

*.err;kern.debug;daemon,auth.notice;daemon.alert	/var/adm/messages

I removed the daemon.alert, so daemon.err would get logged.

Getting back to /usr/man, it might be useful to have automount follow the
link to a directory and mount there.

Ron Stanonik
stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil