Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 04:39:13AM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote: ya, I know its a link.. mine is an IDE burner.. so its simulated as SCSI.. (i guess its still simulated).. my /dev/cdrom is scd0 and /dev/cdrom1 is /dev/scd0 and /dev/cdrom.old is /dev/hdc I tried mounting all three and all give the same answer :( Hmm, have you tried mounting not the links, but rather the devices they point at (so, instead of /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0?) ya i tried.. but same output :( do I "need" to have an entry in fstab?? No, it's just there to help you, or to make things easier. Try ``mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /some-dir'' and make sure, that /some-dir exists. ya it does.. thanks! -sarang Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 05:23:51AM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Try ``mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /some-dir'' and make sure, that /some-dir exists. ya it does.. Okay, so what did you write in your /etc/auto.* files? Pleas post 'em. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:18:54AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
Not on my system. I've looked. Under (Sorry) RedHat 6.2, I'm using a
SCSI CDRW, from which I installed linux. Looking in /dev using ls -al
there is NO link to /dev/scd0 or anything like that. Plus my cd
mounts as /dev/cdrom from /etc/fstab.
Really? That's somewhat hard to believe, so I would be happiest if you
could please post the output of this line:
ls -lasi /dev | grep `ls -lasi /dev/cdrom | awk '{ print $1 }'`
ls -lasi /dev/cdrom
I'd be really interested in the output!
Alexander Skwar
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Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi thanks a lot! this worked!!! I wonder how it got disabled?? -sarang
Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
That's the only shortcoming of autofs. You don't know which directories maybe mounted with autofs, without looking at /etc/auto.*. but thats fine as long as you get /mnt/cdrom when u access it. To access your cdrom, you'll have to type cd /amnt/cdrom (no tab!). It will I tried.. it still dosnt' work.. infact i think the problem is somewhere else.. when i say "autofs status", it dosn't show me any active mount points.. is that the case? ot it shows something only on mounting? anyway, now my problem is that autofs dosn't work.. nor does normal mount work! when i say "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom", it says kernel cannot recognize /dev/cdrom as a valid character device.. any help? -sarang
Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
Submitted 27-Jul-00 by Sarang Lakare: anyway, now my problem is that autofs dosn't work.. nor does normal mount work! when i say "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom", it says kernel cannot recognize /dev/cdrom as a valid character device.. any help? Let me guess, /dev/cdrom is a burner? When you disabled supermount, you also disabled the automatic loading of the ide-scsi module. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 27-Jul-00 by Sarang Lakare: anyway, now my problem is that autofs dosn't work.. nor does normal mount work! when i say "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom", it says kernel cannot recognize /dev/cdrom as a valid character device.. any help? Let me guess, /dev/cdrom is a burner? When you disabled supermount, you also disabled the automatic loading of the ide-scsi module. I didn't disable supermount.. all i did was commented out entries from fstab.. and ya, after that i have rebooted once and kudzu came up saying can't find my CD-RW.. and I guess i havn't tried mounting ever since.. what should i do? thanks sarang -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:38:33AM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote: anyway, now my problem is that autofs dosn't work.. nor does normal mount work! when i say "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom", it says kernel cannot recognize /dev/cdrom as a valid character device.. any help? /dev/cdrom is always a link. Do you have SCSI or IDE? If you have SCSI, it should be a link to /dev/scd0, /dev/scd0 being a _b_lock special device with major 11 and minor 0. If you use IDE, it should be a link to /dev/hd[bcd], whereever you attached the cdrom. These are again _b_lock special devices, and hdb is major 3 minor 64, hdc is 22, 0 and hdd is 22, 64. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:38:33AM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote: anyway, now my problem is that autofs dosn't work.. nor does normal mount work! when i say "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom", it says kernel cannot recognize /dev/cdrom as a valid character device.. any help? /dev/cdrom is always a link. Do you have SCSI or IDE? If you have SCSI, it should be a link to /dev/scd0, /dev/scd0 being a _b_lock special device with major 11 and minor 0. Not on my system. I've looked. Under (Sorry) RedHat 6.2, I'm using a SCSI CDRW, from which I installed linux. Looking in /dev using ls -al there is NO link to /dev/scd0 or anything like that. Plus my cd mounts as /dev/cdrom from /etc/fstab. John
Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
Submitted 27-Jul-00 by Sarang Lakare: I didn't disable supermount.. all i did was commented out entries from fstab.. Same thing, the supermount module doesn't load. Supermount was used as a kind of "trigger" for loading the module. and ya, after that i have rebooted once and kudzu came up saying can't find my CD-RW.. Right. Without the module loaded, the device is invisible to the system. and I guess i havn't tried mounting ever since.. what should i do? This doesn't solve kudzu compaining, but if you add: /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local, you will get access to the burner back. If you're not planning on changing any hardware in the system, it might be wise to disable (not remove) kudzu so that it does not continue to warn about this. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
Okay, so what did you write in your /etc/auto.* files? Pleas post 'em. ~ cat /etc/auto.master # $Id: auto.master,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:03 hpa Exp $ # Sample auto.master file # Format of this file: # mountpoint map options # For details of the format look at autofs(8). #/misc /etc/auto.misc /amnt /etc/auto.amnt ~ cat /etc/auto.amnt # $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:04 hpa Exp $ # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage #kernel -ro ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux #boot -fstype=ext2:/dev/hda1 #removable -fstype=ext2:/dev/hdd cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro /dev/cdrom floppy -fstype=auto/dev/fd0 ~ I think the problem is different coz I can't even mount using "mount" command! Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
Are you quite certain? The fact that fstab has it doesn't say anything about it being a link. Please paste in the results from ls -l /dev/cdrom for us. John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:38:33AM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote: anyway, now my problem is that autofs dosn't work.. nor does normal mount work! when i say "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom", it says kernel cannot recognize /dev/cdrom as a valid character device.. any help? /dev/cdrom is always a link. Do you have SCSI or IDE? If you have SCSI, it should be a link to /dev/scd0, /dev/scd0 being a _b_lock special device with major 11 and minor 0. Not on my system. I've looked. Under (Sorry) RedHat 6.2, I'm using a SCSI CDRW, from which I installed linux. Looking in /dev using ls -al there is NO link to /dev/scd0 or anything like that. Plus my cd mounts as /dev/cdrom from /etc/fstab. John -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:15:31PM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote: Then I tried to access a cd by saying ls /amnt/tab and I can't see any cdrom directory.. Is it created automatically or am I suppose to create it beforehand. That's the only shortcoming of autofs. You don't know which directories maybe mounted with autofs, without looking at /etc/auto.*. To access your cdrom, you'll have to type cd /amnt/cdrom (no tab!). It will then mount automagically, and the directory will also be created. You might get the idea that it might be wise to create symlinks pointing to that automount dir, like ln -vs /amnt/cdrom /cdrom. Don't do that though! If you list the contents of your / dir (ls -la /), this will try to mount /amnt/cdrom, and if there's no CD in the CD-Rom, you will have to wait for the timeout of autofs before you can go on. Infact, I tried creatign /amnt/cdrom and /amnt/floppy and then starting autofs.. but same results.. I can't see contents in /amnt/cdrom This won't work. To unmount your file systems before they are automatically unmounted, you have to send the signal USR1 to all automount processes: /usr/bin/killall -USR1 automount Since it may be that only root can do that, I installed sudo and added this line to /etc/sudoers: ALL ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/killall -USR1 automount Now every user can type sudo /usr/bin/killall -USR1 automount And because that's a little bit much to type, I created a small script, called /usr/local/scripts/demount (put it somewhere in the path). The contents: #!/bin/sh sudo /usr/bin/killall -USR1 automount Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
[fwd] Re: [expert] Setting up autofs (from: ASkwar@DigitalProjects.com)
The mailing list software really get's on nerves. I sent this mail yesterday to capital E, and it hasn't shown up. At least for me. When will Dennis be back? - Forwarded message from Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:00:47 +0200 Subject: Re: [expert] Setting up autofs To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:15:31PM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote: Then I tried to access a cd by saying ls /amnt/tab and I can't see any cdrom directory.. Is it created automatically or am I suppose to create it beforehand. That's the only shortcoming of autofs. You don't know which directories maybe mounted with autofs, without looking at /etc/auto.*. To access your cdrom, you'll have to type cd /amnt/cdrom (no tab!). It will then mount automagically, and the directory will also be created. You might get the idea that it might be wise to create symlinks pointing to that automount dir, like ln -vs /amnt/cdrom /cdrom. Don't do that though! If you list the contents of your / dir (ls -la /), this will try to mount /amnt/cdrom, and if there's no CD in the CD-Rom, you will have to wait for the timeout of autofs before you can go on. Infact, I tried creatign /amnt/cdrom and /amnt/floppy and then starting autofs.. but same results.. I can't see contents in /amnt/cdrom This won't work. To unmount your file systems before they are automatically unmounted, you have to send the signal USR1 to all automount processes: /usr/bin/killall -USR1 automount Since it may be that only root can do that, I installed sudo and added this line to /etc/sudoers: ALL ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/killall -USR1 automount Now every user can type sudo /usr/bin/killall -USR1 automount And because that's a little bit much to type, I created a small script, called /usr/local/scripts/demount (put it somewhere in the path). The contents: #!/bin/sh sudo /usr/bin/killall -USR1 automount Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191 - End forwarded message - Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
