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I hope someone can set me straight.
I am setting up a Redhat EL4 system. I want to mounts system tools from
an NFS server.
In Solaris you can do this:
auto_master:
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/- /etc/tools

/etc/tools:
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/tools nfs1:/export/tools

And this will mount it on the client as /tools.


Can we do this in Redhat?
I have had to do it this way:


auto.master:
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/.mounts /etc/tools

/etc/tools:
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tools nfs1:/export/tools

Is there a way to do it the Solaris way.

Thanks for the help.

Mike