CentOS - Aug 2008 - Please help: The process of am-utils map key lookup

Hi,

 I am using am-utils(amd binary daemon) to auto mount home directories. the
mounting process seems working fine but I am still not understand how the amd
map key(s) lookup process works.

 I've carefully read the am-utils(amd) document at
http://am-utils.org/docs/am-utils/am-utils_8.html, especially the chapter
"3.2 How keys are looked up" but am still not clear. For example,
I'd like to access /home/dumbboy/files/deleteme, what is the key to be used,
and how the lookup/match happens? and how the mount operations happens? Thanks a
lot.

 I've attached my configuration files below:

$ cat /etc/amd.conf
...
auto_dir =              /.amd_mnt
...
map_type =              file
search_path =           /etc
...
[ /home ]
map_name =              amd.home
...

$ cat /etc/amd.home
/defaults
type:=nfs;sublink:=${key};opts:=rw,intr,tcp,nfsvers=3,vers=3,nosuid,nodev,noresvport,rsize=16384,wsize=16384;fs:=${autodir}/${rhost}${rfs}
dumbboy rhost:=home111;rfs:=/0/export/home
* rhost:=home110;rfs:=/0/export/home
...

Thanks.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
>Hi,
>I am using am-utils(amd binary daemon) to auto mount home directories. the
>mounting process seems working fine but I am still not understand how the
>amd map key(s) lookup process works.
>I've carefully read the am-utils(amd) document at http://am-
>utils.org/docs/am-utils/am-utils_8.html, especially the chapter "3.2
How
>keys are looked up" but am still not clear. For example, I'd like
to access
>/home/dumbboy/files/deleteme, what is the key to be used, and how the
>lookup/match happens? and how the mount operations happens? Thanks a lot.
My amd.homes is considerably simpler than that.  We automount to
/homes/username using something like this where the machine
alexis has the real home directories.

# amd.homes
/defaults	opts:=nodevs,soft,rw,type:=nfs;proto=tcp,

*	host==alexis;type:=link;fs:=/home/${key} \
	host!=alexis;type:=nfs;rhost:=alexis;rfs:=/home/${key}

Bill
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