Kelvin Edwards wrote:
>
> It is not in the automount.c code where I expected it
> to be so that a call to automount -Dvar=value would work.
> My auto.master file looks similar to the following:
>
> /u auto.u --timeout 60
>
> where auto.u is a yp map similar to:
>
> home -rw fs:/home
>
> Where should I put the -D option ? In the
> auto.u or auto.master file ? When I put it in
> the auto.master file, the automount did not
> recognize the option, leading to a perusal of
> the automount daemon code where I could not find
> any mention of it. I apologize if it is indeed
> implemented.
>
auto.master is parsed by a distribution-dependent script. I utterly
despise the format of auto.master; it has *so* many problems it isn't
even funny. It's just there so auto.master NIS maps will be sharable
with Suns. If it was up to me, I'd have an /etc/automount.conf which
would simply be the list of automount command lines to execute, i.e.
something like:
-t 60 /u file /etc/auto.u
/home yp auto.home rsize=8192,wsize=8192
-hpa
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