Hi,

On 12/15/04 11:08:44, Ian Kent wrote:
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Thomas Jahns wrote:
> I'm currently experimenting with a script-created map and face the
> following two problems:
>
> - After the script rewrites the map, I need to kill -HUP the
> corresponding automount to reread the map, the documentation says
> the daemon would read a changed map on next access of the
> directory?

Known problem with 4.1.
But what vesion are you running?

sorry I forgot to mention some essential information it seems, I use the 4.1.3-6 debian package.


>
> - Unfortunately there exists the possibility, that the script might
> leave the map empty. The corresponding automount process will then
> exit. Is there perhaps some comment convention or anything else I
> could do to keep the automount process running?

Known problem but not yet fixed.

Okay, could I perhaps add some dummy entry? Any device/location I could specify that would never ever get mounted?


Regards,
Thomas Jahns
--
"Computers are good at following instructions,
but not at reading your mind."
D. E. Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley 1984, 1986, 1996, p. 9



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