On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Peter Bunclark wrote:
> >
...
> > Isn't it really the case that a text file is not a map, it is one
of the
> > sources for a map. The actual automounter map is the parsed concatenation
> > of all input sources, with `+' being a directive to tell the parser
> > how to proceed during the input processs?
>
> Not really. Furthermore, "+" doesn't tell you what kind of "+" are you
> talking about (yp? nisplus?)
You wouldn't be both a nis and a nisplus client; you might look in
nsswitch.conf to find out which nameservice to refer to.
>
> Yes it is. It's just how it is done which is idiotic. The autofs
> "multi" maps allows you to specify any number of maps to be searched in
> any order, without putting crud into the maps themselves.
That sounds great; but for us, the issue is, we'd use vastly more Linux
systems if they'd sit happily in a Solaris NIS+ cluster, and currently,
it takes a lot of hacking to get close to that state. A Sun-compatible
autofs would be a huge step in the right direction.
Cheers,
Pete.
>
> -hpa
>
