autofs

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at ckloiber.com
Mon May 24 19:28:45 UTC 2004


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 at ameritech.net>
-- 
Chris Kloiber






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