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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

8855.0. "automounter and mount directory w/ getwd()" by TLE::JRICHARD () Mon Feb 17 1997 14:12

I run automount on my machine with the following parameters:

/usr/sbin/automount -v -f /etc/yp/auto.master.osf -M /nfs -h

and if I use getwd() on my home directory, I get: 
"/nfs/fuse/var/users/jrichard" (uses the automounter mount point)

However, I'd like getwd() to return: "/usr/users/jrichard"
instead.  The automounter will, of course, create the 
soft link so I can chdir() to "/usr/users/jrichard", but
that's not want I want.

It seems that Solaris 5.5 will do this.  So I could have a 
/etc/yp/auto.master.osf that reads:
/usr/users            auto.users      -nosuid,soft,intr

and have getwd() return /usr/users/jrichard


Is there any way to do this with Digital UNIX?

thanks,
John Richardson ([email protected])
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8855.1no answer but...TLE::JRICHARDWed Feb 19 1997 09:5610
No one as stepped forward to admit they know the answer to this, but
after trying a few options in my automount files, I've come to
the conclusion that the only way I could get getwd() to return
the directory I want, is to actually mount the directory where
I want it.

So it seems the Digital UNIX automounter won't do this the way the
sun one will.