Mr Zesty's Brain Dump: amd - automounter daemon

amd - automounter daemon

Grab the latest version of the am-utils from:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/am-utils/

Create the amd.conf file in /usr/local/etc/amd.conf

# GLOBAL OPTIONS SECTION
[ global ]
auto_dir =              /.a
pid_file =              /var/run/amd.pid
restart_mounts =         yes
#unmount_on_exit =       yes
log_file =               /var/log/amd
log_options =            all
#debug_options =         all
map_type =               file
search_path =            /etc/amdmaps
browsable_dirs =        yes
fully_qualified_hosts =  no
#nfs_proto = 		udp
#nfs_vers = 		2
#
# DEFINE AN AMD MOUNT POINT
#
[/nfs]
map_name = amd.maps
#
[/mnt]
map_name = cdrom
#

Create the 'auto_dir' and amdmaps directory from your amd.conf file.
mkdir /.a /etc/amdmaps
Create the amd map files:
/etc/amdmaps/amd.maps
```
/defaults  type:=nfsl;opts:=rw,intr,grpid,nosuid
nas  rhost:=nfsserver;rfs:=/export
```
The map file above will set up and automount on /nfs/nas.
```
/defaults  type:=cdfs;opts:=ro,utimeout=30
cdrom  dev:=/dev/cdrom
```
This map file will set up an automount for the cdrom on /mnt/cdrom

Add the automount to your rc.local file:

echo "Starting AMD"
/usr/local/sbin/ctl-amd start

Notes: You must set your automounter for an empty subdirectory of the partition. You cannot mount an automount device on /cdrom - you must create and empty directory first /mnt, and set that as your automounter directory. There's no reason you can't create a symlink though...
ln -s /mnt/cdrom /cdrom

When you try and access the automount path [ ls /mnt/cdrom ], the automount will take place.