[Gllug] AutoFS anyone...?

Dylan Brewis dylan at shinyboots.org.uk
Tue Nov 20 17:59:23 UTC 2001


On Monday 19 November 2001 7:51 pm, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 11:00, Dylan Brewis wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up AutoFS 3.1.7 on SuSE 7.3. I have made sure the
> > package is installed, and uncommented the lines in /etc/auto.master and
> > /etc/auto.misc which relate to the local CDROM. The START_AUTOFS variable
> > in /etc/rc.config has been set to "yes". The documentation says I need to
> > "activate Kernel Automounter Support in the kernel configuration (as a
> > module preferrably)."
>
> As I recall, this should be switched on by default in most kernels
> anyway. I may be wrong.
> If you aren't confident about building/installing kernels yet,
> then don't worry.
>
> Try the command 'insmod autofs' then 'lsmod' on your system,
> and let us know what it says.
> (ps. - you don't need to issue these commands every time.
> I'm just trying to make sure that the autofs module is there).


Thanks, autofs is there in the list produced by lsmod, before trying insmod.

So, it's already there, like you say.

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