Scott McDermott wrote:
>
> root on Mon 5/02 14:38 -0500:
> > My company just converted its automount maps to NIS on a Solaris 8
> > server. While I had autofs working local maps, I cannot get it to work
> > with NIS. I am running Redhat 6.2 with autofs 3.1.5.
> >
> > for /etc/auto_master I have ...
> > +auto.master
> >
> > for /etc/auto_home I have ...
> > +auto.home
>
> Linux' autofs doesn't do included maps (+) and also doesn't do direct
> maps (only indirect ones). In the repeated words of HPA, something like
> "[this is a horribly designed Sun kludge and will never, ever, be
> supported. Ever. Period. Full stop.]"
>
> IMHO, this is a *really* poor decision from the perspective of
> interoperability, but perhaps not from that of engineering.
There really seems to have gone in *no* engineering into the Sun map
format. I am really starting to repeatedly regret even attempting
interoperability due to the large number of warts in this data format.
> In any case, it's not going to happen.
In the case of file maps *ONLY*, I might end up deciding to support it
because people whine enough about it. On the other hand, I would like to
point out that THEY ARE LOCAL FILES DAMMIT... so "interoperability" is a
pretty bad argument.
-hpa
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