On Thu, 4 May 2006, Rigler, Stephen C. wrote: > > > -----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 > > > > Pretty much standard configuration here on Solaris and Irix is > to have "automount: files nis" in nsswitch.conf and "+auto.master" > in the local auto_master file. I'm not aware if this is what > the standard automount behavior should be (it's documented in the > Irix man page for autofs), but we've gotten away with it for years > if it's not. > > Another nice thing to see would be the "-null" option in auto.master. > We have machines running clustered filesystems that are also > exported via NFS from one or two meta-data servers. The machines > that see the filesystems locally should not automount the fileystems > and the "-null" would allow us to exclude them.
It should understand "-null" but the question is whether it works correctly and how it should work. Give a try and let me know how it goes. What would you have in your map in this case? Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
