I bought Solaris 10 some years ago and am now trying to use it. The install (on an Ultra 5) went ok but /home is unwritable. ls -l shows only Total 0. chmod won't add any permissions and the file manager shows the permissions to be n/a. Trying to write to /home results in a cannot create error.
I am not sure I agree with you. The word export means something remote. I have been using Solaris 2.6 for 13 years. The local home directories are at /home. I have never found any use for /export. Under S2.6 both /home and /export/home are writable.
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It appears that Solaris requires /home to be a separate slice.
I am not sure I agree with you. The word export means something remote.
It doesn't. It means something exported but it obviously can be local on the file server itself.
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I have been using Solaris 2.6 for 13 years. The local home directories are at /home.
That means either the automounter was disabled or properly configured for local mounts.
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I have never found any use for /export. Under S2.6 both /home and /export/home are writable.
/home is writable only if not handled by the automounter.
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It appears that Solaris requires /home to be a separate slice.
Solaris doesn't requires that.
To configure your home directory through the automounter, assuming your home directory files are stored under /export/home/snorkack59, add this line to the /etc/auto_home file:
Code:
snorkack59 localhost:/export/home/&
Otherwise, to disable the automounter for home directories all together, comment out the line starting with /home in /etc/auto_master.
I had already started a new install with home on a separate slice by the time I received your reply but will keep your reply for future reference. I did not know about the /etc/auto_home and auto_master files. Thank you for the help.
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