The Berkeley Automounter Suite of Utilities

The Berkeley Automounter, Amd, may be used as a replacement for Sun's automounter. The choice of which file system to mount can be controlled dynamically with selectors. Selectors allow decisions of the form "hostname is this," or "architecture is not that." Selectors may be combined arbitrarily. Amd also supports a variety of file system types, including NFS, UFS and the novel program file system. The combination of selectors and multiple file system types allows identical configuration files to be used on all machines thus reducing the administrative overhead. Amd ensures that it will not hang if a remote server goes down. Moreover, Amd can determine when a remote server has become inaccessible and then mount replacement file systems as and when they become available.

Welcome to the am-utils version 6.x home page. My name is Erez Zadok and I'm the lead maintainer of am-utils. Am-utils is the "next generation" of the popular BSD Automounter, Amd. Am-utils includes many additional updates, ports, programs, features (such as Autofs support, NFS V.3 support, and shared libraries), bug fixes, and more.

October 10, 2005: First test release, am-utils 6.2a1, includes Sun-style automount syntax maps support. June 11, 2005: First official and stable am-utils 6.1 is released (check updated releases since then). June 4, 2004: Commercial support for am-utils is available.

Software:

• Main FTP server.
• Sources for latest stable version of am-utils.
• All other, older stable releases of am-utils.
• The latest released snapshot of the sources, all released snapshots, or a daily snapshot of the sources. These may not be as stable as the official version.
• Sources for older alpha and beta versions of am-utils and amd.
• Browse the Am-utils sources using LXR.
• Prebuilt binaries for various platforms. Please read this README file before using any of these binaries.
• Patches for am-utils software as well as system software
• For maintainers, utilities (possibly modified) such as GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool.
• FTP mirror sites.

Documentation and Information:

• My book.
• Latest user-manual (in HTML), postscript, or PDF. The distribution also includes Emacs Info and DVI formats.
• An FAQ which was started in March 2005 (so its still small and evolving).
• List of platforms on which am-utils builds and runs, and the level of their compatibility. Also available in text format from the distribution is the INSTALL file.
• A list of known system bugs, including some very important issues concerning OS Attribute Cache limitations. If you find a new problem with Am-utils, please describe it in detail and submit a bug report via Bugzilla.
• The latest NEWS file from the distribution. The ChangeLog file contains more verbose details.
• Information about Autofs support.
• Information about Sun-style automounter maps support.
• Information about LDAP support.
• Information about Mac OS-X support.
• Unofficial Year-2000 Compliance information.
• A list of tasks that need work on. Please volunteer to help if you can.
• A list of additional research publications and journal articles relating to Amd is available later in this page.
• I gave an Amd Tutorial at LISA '99 on Sunday, November 7, 1999. On Thursday, November 11, 1999, I hosted a BOF to discuss future directions for am-utils.
• On 09/1999, the CERT has released an important incident note and a security advisory regarding Amd and am-utils.
• As of June 4, 2004, commercial support for am-utils is available.

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