"Taylor, ForrestX" wrote: > > Alexander Macdonald wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've currently got automount setup so that i can cd into a directory > > like /mnt/someplace and someplace will be automatically created and > > mounted... it would be quite usefull if that directory was allways > > visible so that i could browse to it in gui applications... how do i do > > that? > > If you want it visible all the time, use /etc/fstab, not autofs. Work > is being done on leaving the directory structure before actually > mounting it, but it is not finished yet. > > Forrest Or you can fake it by having a directory where autofs puts its stuff and in the directory where you want the mounts, have softlinks back to the correct autofs location.
like autofs puts its stuff in /.autofs/mount1 and you do ln -s /.autofs/mount1 /mnt/mount1 there are 2 problems I have seen with this (though I still use it) 1) if your home directory is in /mnt/mount1 you (if PS1=\h:\w\$ on bash) will see "machine:/.autofs/mount1$ " until you type cd once. 2) if you do an ls in /mnt/ (or navigate a netscape/openoffice.org [save/open] through it) you will be waiting until autofs has processed mounting all the autofs mounts. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
