stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik) (05/17/89)
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