Re: A warning about Mac OS X 10.3.5 + NFS
Re: A warning about Mac OS X 10.3.5 + NFS
- Subject: Re: A warning about Mac OS X 10.3.5 + NFS
- From: Justin Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:44:26 -0700
On Aug 11, 2004, at 8:05, j o a r wrote:
On 2004-08-11, at 16.53, Justin Walker wrote:
Odd. On my 10.3.5 system, as well as my 10.3.4 system, "/automount"
is a real directory. There is no 'automount' in /private.
I have both a /automount and a /private/automount, and they are
different directories. In particular, this is where my home directory
is mounted:
[protoss:~] joar% pwd -P
/private/automount/t3/dynamic/home0/joar
Weird, but then, I don't do automounting (coming from a long history of
NFS fire drills...).
It could be that automounted directories actually get mounted under
/private, but that flies in the face of the purpose for "/private".
FWIW, this directory is not supposed to be referred to in polite
society. It's there so that one can set up a network-wide root, but
have per-workstation directories for mutable content (stuff that lives
in /etc/, and /tmp, for example). That way, the local disk is mounted
under "/private", and has the "real" (i.e., local) copies of these
directories.
There is no good reason to put mounted home directories under
"/private", because they are already "private".
And this console entry is what gave me the idea that Xcode strips out
the leading "/private":
2004-08-11 14:46:00.684 Xcode[1142] Unable to index
/automount/t3/dynamic/home0/joar/test/main.m: No such file or
directory
Which leads me to suspect that the "/private/automount" directory is
somehow spurious. Anyone know how it gets into the act?
I welcome any suggestions for workarounds so that I can avoid having
to
reinstall my OS to revert back to 10.3.4...
Can you revert to a previous "dot" release? I thought (without ever
checking) that once a release is superseded, it is not available via
Software Update.
You're right, and that's what makes it so difficult - I would have to
scratch my current OS, reinstall 10.3 from the CD and then manually
upgrade it to 10.3.4 (can't use SU as it would suggest 10.3.5).
If so, that's good to know. I wasn't aware one could do this
"manually".
Regards,
Justin
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