Darrel Hankerson wrote:
>
> > > map=`echo "$map" | sed -e 's/^auto_/auto./'` ,
> > >
> > > is this necesary? We have a Debian bug from a user apparently
> > > wanting to use maps like auto_home.
> >
> > Unfortunately it's required due to Yet Another Sun Piece of Idiocy.
>
> Can you elaborate? I have to remove this line from the autofs script on
> all of our RHL boxes before installing them. Sometimes I forget, and no
> one gets their homes automounted. The servers with the NIS maps are
> Sun. So in this case I would say that you are breaking Sun mounts
>
> I only know part of the story, but anything to keep autofs compatible
> with NIS+ would be great. NIS+ uses auto_home rather than auto.home.
> The typical setup has /etc/auto_home, /etc/auto_direct,
> /etc/auto_master (in addition to the files distributed as NIS+
> tables).
>
This transformation should *NOT* be done for NIS+ maps. If it is, it's
broken.
-hpa
