Re: autofs

From: Chris Kloiber (ckloiber_at_ckloiber.com)
Date: 05/24/04

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Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 03:28:45 +0800

    On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 22:59, Mark Guzzo wrote:
    > Hello all,
    >
    > I've selected autofs to install and now when I click on the floppy or
    > cdrom from "Computer" in Nautilus it will mount the device, cool.
    >
    > My question is ...
    > How do I make it to umount the device after so many seconds of idle
    > time?
    >
    > I've looked at the auto.master, auto.misc, auto.net and non of them seem
    > to be providing the automagic mount point!. So where/what is the config
    > file for this?

    $ 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 --timeout=60

    > The only way that I've been able to do what I want is to setup a
    > automagic mount point in auto.master pointing to auto.vol. But this
    > "fix" does not use the "Floppy", "CDRom" icons located in "Computer"
    >
    > I'm no expert at autofs, but I do understand it. I'm just confused as to
    > how FC2 is auto mounting the devices.
    >
    > Any help would be great :-)
    >
    > Mark
    >
    >
    > --
    > Mark Guzzo <marguz@ameritech.net> 

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