Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-08-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
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 -- Homepa

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-08-01 Thread Sarang Lakare
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 > > >

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
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

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-28 Thread Sarang Lakare
> > /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi > thanks a lot! this worked!!! I wonder how it got disabled?? -sarang

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-27 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
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, no

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-27 Thread Sarang Lakare
> 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.mis

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-27 Thread Anton Graham
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

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-27 Thread John Aldrich
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 ch

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
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 i

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-27 Thread Sarang Lakare
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? > > Le

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-26 Thread Anton Graham
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

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-26 Thread Sarang Lakare
> 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 stil

[fwd] Re: [expert] Setting up autofs (from: ASkwar@DigitalProjects.com)

2000-07-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
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/ and I can't see any > cdrom directory.. Is it crea

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:15:31PM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote: > Then I tried to access a cd by saying ls /amnt/ 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

[expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-25 Thread Sarang Lakare
Hi guys, After having all the trouble with supermount, i switched to autofs.. but never got it to work.. I did everythign according to the man pages.. but things don't seem to work. My auto.master file is like this : # For details of the format look at autofs(8). #/misc /etc/auto.misc /amnt