Re: Problem with amd under RH 5.1

[Stefan Boresch <stefan mdy univie ac at>]

> 
> In article <wo4svcuhol.fsf@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>,
>   Stefan Boresch <stefan@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> >
> > I am just realizing that I am having an intermittent problem
> > using amd (am-utils) under RH 5.1.  Everything works perfectly for up to
> 
> I have just come across the problem you described with amd and NIS. Did
> you find a solution?

Great, at least a 'me too' reply.  First, I want to stress that this
is a problem on both the intel and alpha platform.  The 'solution' for
me was to switch to the kernel automounter.  Works great so far. 
Of course the maps are different between the kernel automounter and
amd.  It's back to the old Sun style automount maps.  But since
I am serving those anyways to my SGIs, this was not a problem.

Two comments: On intel, setting things up is trivial.  In the
orig. RH5.1 kernel, the necessary module is compiled, then in
userland install autofs-3.1.1-4.i386.rpm.  If you know how
automount works, you are in business.  On alpha, there is no
rpm.  Trying to compile the src.rpm tells you that this is
intel only.  Well, I compiled it anyways and recompiled a kernel
with the autofs support.  Surprisingly, it works great so far.

But this brings up my question: Does anyone know what is known
not to work with autofs on the alpha platform ?  Is there
a reason why RedHat is not releasing it for alpha?

Thanks,

Stefan

PS: If someone runs across a fix for the amd problem, I am still
interested!