Re: Is amd automount still supported in 13.0 or not?

From: David Wolfskill <david_at_catwhisker.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 08:15:05 -0800
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 09:46:50AM -0600, Bob Willcox wrote:
> ...
> > Amd is not build by default now and will be removed from base. But you
> > can continue using it by installing sysutils/am-utils from port.
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I will likely go ahead and install the am-utils port as from looking
> at the setup and features of autofs it is way more complex and does more than I need or
> want. I've been using amd for decades now and it does exactly what I need w/o any special
> setup or configuration required.  :)
> ....

I had also used amd from back when I still used a SPARCStation 5 as my
home NFS (& yp) server, but switched with little fuss to autofs --
primarily by using symlinks into /net/${host}/..., which works (for my
purposes) just as well with either (amd or autofs).

Peace,
david
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