Thread: difference /home and /export/home

what is the difference between /home and /export/home

i cannot change permissions on /home. i tried disabling autofs and commented /etc/auto_home and /etc/auto_master, but still get error that i cannot change permission on /home.

whereas no problem creating dir in /export/home.

any idea gurus ?

/home, /net by default set as an automatic NFS mounting service point. If you want to create /home/username dir just like Linux or BSD you must disable the automounter service:

Code:

svcadm disable autofs

You also need to remove /home entry from from /etc/auto_master and restart autofs

Code:

svcadm restart autofs

i guess i missed to restart.

This has been a common mistake with many new UNIX sys admins. You must always reload or restart service whenever you make changes. One my faiorate hack is

Code:

service something restart && tail -f /var/log/messages
rndc reload && tail -f /var/log/bind.log