Problem with autofs on linux.

[Matt Brodeur]

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On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:14:24AM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> Here's the problem. I added the following line to my auto.master
> 
> /usr/local       /etc/auto.viasat
> 
> Then the content of my /etc/auto.viasat contains this line:
> 
> viasat       -ro             bos-srv-lnx:/usr/local/viasat
> 
> The viasat doesn't work and I'm ripping my hair out trying to figure this 
> out. The automount works fine but it eclipses the entire content of 
> /usr/local.

Looks like the expected behavior of autofs.  It wants to own the root
of any tree it's managing.  This is also why you can't use the typical
auto.home on a system that has any content already in /home.  


> The goal is that I don't want any of the files in /usr/local to be 
> eclipsed. I just want /usr/local/viasat to have the content of the 
> /usr/local/viasat from bos-srv-lnx.

I usually solve this with symlinks and/or bind mounts.  Have viasat
automounted somewhere else, then link to it from /usr/local.  It's not
pretty, but it works (usually).

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