On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 10:25:17PM -0700, Rich McClellan wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > The problem I noticed is that the autofs script that comes with Debian
> > 2.2 has a text for /etc/auto.master, and if that exists, it *doesn't*
> > look at the auto.master YP map! This is a change of behaviour (one I
> > disapprove of). Since the default Debian installation has some (silly,
> > IMHO) sample /etc/auto.master file, I just blew that away and
> > rebooted.
>
> Red Hat (6.2, 6.1 and 5.2) all exhibit the same behavior: If
> /etc/auto.master exists the YP map is not checked, even if nsswitch.conf
> specifies that nis should be checked before files.
It bears mentioning that autofs pays no attention to /etc/nsswitch.conf.
If it did, you'd have a hard time mixing NIS maps with all of the other
map types that autofs supports. Ick.
The strange auto.master behavior is all ironed out in our development
tree, by the way. I still owe Jeremy an updated set of patches for v4.
Cheers,
Nalin
