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am-utils - Berkeley automounter suite of utilities

The Berkeley Automounter, Amd, maintains a cache of mounted file systems, and lets users dynamically control which file system to mount with selectors. Selectors, which may be combined, allow decisions of the form "hostname is this," or "architecture is not that." Amd also supports numerous file system types, including NFS, UFS and the novel program file system.

The combination of selectors and multiple file system types means that identical configuration files can be used on all machines. Amd will not hang if a remote server goes down, and can determine when a remote server has become inaccessible and mount replacement file systems when they become available.

Obtaining

Web page http://www.am-utils.org/
Source tarball ftp://ftp.am-utils.org/pub/am-utils/am-utils-6.0.9.tar.gz
Source information ftp://ftp.am-utils.org/pub/am-utils/
Version 6.0.9 (stable) released on 2003-01-25
Version 6.14b (devel) released on 2003-09-17

Licensed under BSD_AdClause.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User manual available in HTML format from http://www.am-utils.org/docs/am-utils/am-utils.html; User manual available in PostScript format from http://www.am-utils.org/docs/am-utils/am-utils.ps; User manual available in PDF format from http://www.am-utils.org/docs/am-utils/am-utils.pdf

Support contacts

Announce List	<am-utils-announce@am-utils.org> http://lists.am-utils.org/mailman/listinfo/am-utils-announce
Help List	<am-utils@am-utils.org> http://lists.am-utils.org/mailman/listinfo/am-utils
Developer List	<am-utils-developers@am-utils.org> http://lists.am-utils.org/mailman/listinfo/am-utils-developers
Bug List	<am-utils@am-utils.org> http://lists.am-utils.org/mailman/listinfo/am-utils
Support	Paid technical support and training available from Kernel Corp. at http://www.kernelcorp.com/autom.html

Project contacts

Maintainers	Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.columbia.edu>
Developers	Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.columbia.edu> Also see the AUTHORS file in the distribution for a complete list
Contributors	Jan-Simon Pendry

Related information

Source repository	ftp://ftp.am-utils.org/pub/am-utils/snapshots/daily
Interfaces	daemon
Source languages	C

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2004-07-08
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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