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: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:48:58 +0200
On 2004-08-11, at 17.44, Justin Walker wrote:
> Weird, but then, I don't do automounting (coming from a long history
> of NFS fire drills...).
Do you have an alternative suggestion that I could forward to our
sysadmin?
> 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".
I have no idea why it ends up in /private, but apparently something
changed with the Mac OS X 10.3.5 update. It's strange that only Xcode,
of all applications on the system, needs to have a problem with this.
Apparently automounted NFS home directories is not used at all at
Apple, that much is clear... :)
>> 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".
You can find updates, new and old, archived here:
<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/>
Thank you for your suggestions so far!
j o a r
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