Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2007-12-04, Jason Roscoe <jason.roscoe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to configure the automounter not to mount every single
>> nfs export from a server? On our network here my home directory is on
>> an nfs filesystem on a Solaris server. If I log in to my Debian system
>> and then type 'mount -t nfs', it seems that every single nfs export from
>> the Solaris system is mounted. Is this normal? I would prefer that
>> only directories that I have accessed (like cd /net/my/home) would show
>> up when I type 'mount' to see mounted filesystems. Thanks in advance
>> for any clues on fixing this. BTW, my older RedHat boxen behave the way
>> I would prefer the Debian box to behave but I don't know the differences
>> in the nfs/autofs configuration between them.
>
> Did you look? Read your auto.master files on both boxes, and the files
> to which they refer. You should probably also examine the /etc/fstab
> files on both machines; it really sounds like the Debian /etc/fstab
> has entries for your NFS mounts (which would explain why they're always
> mounted--they were mounted at boot, not under automount).
>
> --keith
>

thanks for the info. you got me to do some research and i delved into
the autofs script on the debian box. the auto.net file used for /net
was using showmount to find and mount every available export from the
nfs server. the script checks the permissions on /etc/auto.net and if
it is executable, it is used as a "program" map. so, even though i
replaced auto.net with the auto.net file from my old redhat box, it was
still trying to use a program map instead of a "file" map. anyway, once
i changed the permissions so it was not executable, i am getting the
behavior i originally wanted.