SUMMARY Automount of /var/spool/mail

Chris Nespor (cnespor@eos.hitc.com)
Mon, 05 May 1997 08:02:11 -0400

Thanks to all who replied. 95% of the replies said the same thing.

Here is the original post:

Hello Sun Managers,

I'll get right to the point. Is there any problem automounting
/var/spool/mail ? We have a new Network Appliance NFS file server that
has lots of disk space on it. We also have about 1800 users eating up a
lot of disk space on our mail server. Most of our (400) workstations
are mounting /var/spool/mail via normal nfs mounts.

Thanks for your help,

--Chris

And the answer is:

You need to mount it with the following switches,

/etc/auto_direct:
/var/spool/mail -rw,noac,actimeo=0 server:/var/spool/mail

Most replies looked like the above example. A few replies suggested
using the -hard switch.

Thanks again for the help.

--Chris

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