On 5 Jun 2000, Quintela Carreira Juan J. wrote:
> I am sorry, but I don't like that, I want that any map is read from
> /etc if it exists, and in other case, read from NIS. Example:
>
> Here I have an NFS server, I use it for several archs/oses.
> I want to be able to mount the binaries mounts rw in some
> systems, but being ro in the rest of them. I achieve that
> putting a NIS map ro and overriding specific maps in specific
> machines with a local map. How can I obtain that if I read first
> the NIS map?
The point made by Gooch, and an *extremely* good one because we want Linux
to behave like the other Unices out there, is that the file nsswitch.conf
should specify the behavior of map lookups, not some ad hoc check for a
file.
Rich
