06-05-2015
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1. AIX
Hi Guys,
Autofs works fine on AIX 5.2, but the same thing is not getting mounted automatically on AIX 5.3..
Is there ant difference for autofs confiiguration between 5.2 and 5.3
Thanks & Regards
Manu (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: b_manu78
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2. Solaris
Hi,
I want to permanently disable nfs and autofs in solaris 9, (2 Replies)
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3. Solaris
I've a sun server, 3 sun workstations and plan to do backup on certain directory in each workstations monthly.
As it's only require to mount as NFS on those workstations once a month. So I plan to configure such requirement using autofs.
What are the considerations need to take care in such... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: KhawHL
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4. Solaris
hi
tell me difference between direct automount and indirect automount.
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Discussion started by: sijocg
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5. Solaris
what are all the advantages of direct map and indirect map in 'AUTOFS' and which one is better for our usage (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dinu
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am running CentOS 6.3 as a VM on a host which has the same installation. I configured my NFS server and I am guessing it works. I say guessing because I can mount the desired folder with mount command on my client machine. So, when I run:
mount -t nfs -o vers=3 vm2.domain.com:/nethome /nethit... (7 Replies)
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7. Red Hat
I have an nfs at 192.168.1.10:/home/vm1/Desktop/nfs and will like to mount locally to /home/vm1/Desktop/nfs-mount using automounter...need help doing do
What i did
$cat /etc/auto.master
/home/vm1/Desktop /etc/auto.nfs
$cat /etc/auto.nfs
nfs-bind -fstype=nfs ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: nokia3310
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8. Red Hat
Hi
I'm trying to use autofs to mount a directory structure. I have a directory with sub directories in it and all of them mounted on their respective filesystems
/dbname /dev/mapper/vg_dbname-Home
/dbname/oracle00 /dev/mapper/vg_dbname-Data00... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: maverick_here
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9. Red Hat
RHEL 7.1 client using autofs to mount a NIS map of home directories being exported by a Solaris 10x86 nfs server.
The owner and group are correct on the NFS server, but on the RHEL client, the owner and group end up being nobody nobody. The USERS and GROUPS are NIS maps as well. They are... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mrmurdock
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10. Fedora
Hi all,
I'm having trouble getting autofs working on a new install of Scientific Linux 7.2.
I have the files /etc/auto.master, /etc/auto/homes and /etc/auto.misc and /auto.direct setup, and they are copies of files on a working SL 6 machine. I can include the contents of the files at the end... (0 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
sys_attrs_autofs
sys_attrs_autofs(5) File Formats Manual sys_attrs_autofs(5)
NAME
sys_attrs_autofs - autofs subsystem attributes
DESCRIPTION
This reference page lists and describes attributes for the AutoFS (autofs) kernel subsystem. Refer to the sys_attrs(5) reference page for
an introduction to the topic of kernel subsystem attributes.
Specifies the duration (in seconds) that a file system is to remain mounted when not in use. This is analogous to the automount com-
mand's -tl option.
Default value: 300 (seconds)
Minimum value: 1
Maximum value: 100000000
Specifies the interval (in seconds) between attempts to unmount file systems that have exceeded their idle_timeout limit. This is
analogous to the automount command's -tw option.
Default value: 60 (seconds)
Minimum value: 1
Maximum value: 100000000
Specifies the duration (in seconds) for which a mount failure is cached, preventing a retry of the mount during this time.
Default value: 30 (seconds)
Minimum value: 0
Maximum value: 100000000
Specifies the maximum amount of time (in seconds) a process waits for an auto-mounted file system or subtree to become available.
Default value: 120 (seconds)
Minimum value: 1
Maximum value: 100000000
Specifies the amount of time (in seconds) the autofsd daemon waites for an individual NFS server to respond to a mount request.
Default value: 30 (seconds)
Minimum value: 0
Maximum value: 100000000
Specifies the size of the AutoFS hash table used to find all AutoFS directories and symlinks system-wide. The size is calculated at
boot time based upon the value of max_vnodes.
Default value: 32 (lists)
Minimum value: 32
Maximum value: 8192
SEE ALSO
sys_attrs(5)
System Configuration and Tuning
sys_attrs_autofs(5)