Problem with autofs on linux.

[Steven W. Orr]

On Monday, Oct 2nd 2006 at 22:31 -0400, quoth Paul Lussier:

=>"Steven W. Orr" <steveo at syslang.net> writes:
=>
=>> Then in auto.direct you say
=>>
=>> /usr/local/viasat	bos-srv-lnx:/usr/local/viasat
=>>
=>> Great idea but it doesn't work. The automounter initializes itself but if 
=>> you try to access /usr/local/viasat there's nothing there. :-(
=>
=>What happens if you try to cd into /usr/local/viasat/foo ?  With
=>automounter, subdir 'foo' isn't there *until* you request it.  cd'ing
=>into the mountpoint dir will not show you the available locations to
=>be automounted, you actually have to know where you're going before
=>you go there...
=>
=>-- 
=>Seeya,
=>Paul
=>

I found out that the auto-direct syntax is not supported under linux.

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