==> Regarding RE: [autofs] [ANNOUNCE] autofs 5.0.0 beta1; "Rigler, Stephen C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
>> -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:56 AM To: Ian Kent Cc: Rigler, Stephen >> C.; autofs mailing list Subject: Re: [autofs] [ANNOUNCE] autofs 5.0.0 >> beta1 >> raven> and /etc/auto.master exists with a +auto.master it >> will probably get raven> it wrong in a strange way. Maybe that's what is happening? >> Yeah, I think this is the one exception to the nsswitch rule. I wonder >> if it's the same if you have /etc/auto.foo that does a +auto.foo? May >> be worth testing that out on another UNIX box to see what happens. >> >> -Jeff >> srigler> Pretty much standard configuration here on Solaris and Irix is to srigler> have "automount: files nis" in nsswitch.conf and "+auto.master" in srigler> the local auto_master file. I'm not aware if this is what the srigler> standard automount behavior should be (it's documented in the Irix srigler> man page for autofs), but we've gotten away with it for years if srigler> it's not. srigler> Another nice thing to see would be the "-null" option in srigler> auto.master. We have machines running clustered filesystems that srigler> are also exported via NFS from one or two meta-data servers. The srigler> machines that see the filesystems locally should not automount the srigler> fileystems and the "-null" would allow us to exclude them. Well, you're in luck. Give autofs5 a try, as it is supposed to handle -null maps. -Jeff _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
