On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Brian Wert wrote:

> When the automounter starts, it will parse the nsswitch.conf file.  Since our
> entry contains files first, it will and search for a /etc/auto.master file.
> In the above entry, the automounter knows the /home entry is ldap, and will
> query the ldap server under the specified base dn for cn entries in the
> ou=auto.home.

i thought that the init script decides where to get the master map from and
that the automount entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf has no relevance for any
map.
 can somebody please enlighten me ? ;-)

        ~dirkw


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