Roy Stogner wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > You don't have to use auto.master, you know. auto.master is really a
> > hideously poor format.
>
> Sorry if this is a FAQ, but what are the alternatives? Starting
> automount manually? There's nothing except auto.master listed on my
> (admittedly Red Hat modified) autofs man page.
That would be bad. Yes, under Linux (unlike for example Solaris) you
can start automount manually; you can get much finer control that way
(you can use stuff like the multimaps in 3.1.4-pre4, too.) The only
reason I started supporting auto.master at all was to be able to share a
global auto.master NIS map with Solaris machines.
-hpa
