Re: Help needed using Sun 'automount' map with Debian's amd.

[Christian Hudon <chrish@libertel.montreal.qc.ca>]

On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Dominik Kubla wrote:

> 
> Look at /usr/doc/amd there is a (untested!) script to convert automount to
> amd maps.

Err. doesn't seem to be in my /usr/doc/amd:

sysadmin@chloe:[/usr/doc/amd] #ls -la
total 5
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jun 13 09:37 ./
drwxr-xr-x 105 root     root         3072 Aug  2 13:50 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          635 May 18 16:31 KNOWN_BUGS

sysadmin@chloe:[/usr/doc/amd] #dpkg -l amd
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  amd             upl102-3       The 4.4BSD automounter.

... And 'upl102-3' is the most recent version on ftp.debian.org (and
there's no amd waiting in Incoming). A script would nice... what would
have been nicer is if they had been compatible with each other. But hey,
this is Unix. They *had* to be incompatible, just for the princple of the
thing. <sigh>

Btw, could explain to me the format of amd's map... The manpage isn't very
verbose on the topic:

       Lookups within the speci­
       fied directories are handled by amd, which  uses  the  map
       defined by mapname to determine how to resolve the lookup.
       Generally, this will  be  a  host  name,  some  filesystem
       information  and some mount options for the given filesys­
       tem.

The last sentence is all we get for a description of the format. (In fact
I'm very much tempted to file that as a bug against amd. Can I? :-) ) It's
a bit like saying the fstab format is a "generally a device, a mount point
and some mount options"... *not* good enough if you've never seen a fstab. 

 Thanks in advance for your help...

     Christian