amd documentation: why is it so confusing?
David Fleck
david.fleck at mchsi.com
Wed Dec 3 18:46:19 PST 2003
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Rob wrote:
> However, I am getting totally stuck in the amd manuals. Are the amd manuals
> really that bad, or is it me?
>
> For example:
> The FreeBSD handbook mentions amd in one sentence, by referring to the
> manual pages of amd and amd.conf. So all I have are the manual pages
> on the amd commands and files. The amd manual talks about a map file,
> but there's nowhere information to be found on what the structure of
> such a map file is.
>
> Is the creation of the amd-map file too trivial, or so complicated that
> nobody dares explaining it....?
>
> Anyone who can point me to better help on this?
While FreeBSD's man pages are usually extremely detailed, I have found
that there is a layer of documentation - more complex and detailed than
the Handbook, but more generalized and less in-depth than the man pages -
that is simply missing in the FreeBSD world. The layer that would be
occupied in Linux-land by the HOWTOs is made up of scattered web pages,
mailing lists like this one, and newsgroups.
Anyway, I found this very helpful for automounting:
http://www.daemonnews.org/200202/automounting.html
below is my /etc/amd.map file, which mounts 2 CD-ROM drives, a floppy, and
a Zip drive. (Pretty much just like the article above.)
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/amd.map,v 1.8 1999/09/13 17:09:07 peter Exp $
#
/defaults type:=host;fs:=${autodir}/${rhost}/host;rhost:=${key}
* opts:=rw,grpid,resvport,vers=2,proto=udp,nosuid,nodev
localhost type:=auto;fs:=${map};pref:=${key}/
localhost/cdrom type:=program;fs:=/mnt/cdrom;\
mount:="/sbin/mount mount /mnt/cdrom";\
unmount:="/sbin/umount umount /mnt/cdrom"
localhost/cdrom2 type:=program;fs:=/mnt/cdrom2;\
mount:="/sbin/mount mount /mnt/cdrom2";\
unmount:="/sbin/umount umount /mnt/cdrom2"
localhost/zip type:=program;fs:=/mnt/zip;\
mount:="/sbin/mount mount /mnt/zip";\
unmount:="/sbin/umount umount /mnt/zip"
localhost/floppy type:=program;fs:=/mnt/floppy;\
mount:="/sbin/mount mount /mnt/floppy";\
unmount:="/sbin/umount umount /mnt/floppy"
--
David Fleck
david.fleck at mchsi.com
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