[wplug] tool for editing the fstab

[Jonathan S. Billings]

It sounds like you are looking for something like automount/autofs and 
NIS to distribute the mount list.



On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 10:54  PM, <harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu> 
wrote:

> |i dunno, i'm a big fan of vim ..
>
> i'm a big fan of vim also.
>
> |not sure if i'm understand what you mean by "tool" then ... are you
> |looking for a more automated (if that's the right word) perhaps 
> graphical
> |tool to setup fstab for you?
>
> i probably should have stated my purpose originally.  i don't want
> something graphical what i want is something like:
>
> fstabadd -m <fs_file> -s <fs_spec> -t <fs_vfstype> \\
>    -o <fs_mntops> -f <fs_freq>  -p <fs_passno>
>
> where it will add the new mount point if say:
>
> that mount point isn't already being used, the fs_vfstype makes sense
> (support for that filesystem type), the mount options make sense, etc.
>
> when i add a new disk to the file server i want to add something to the
> nightly scripts that will add the new line to the fstabs on all of the
> computers on the network. i don't want to login to each computer and 
> edit
> the fstab manually. it's kind of a pain to do it that way.
>
> i can probably hack something together in perl to do some of the checks
> above.
>
>
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