I thought this to be correct also Brian, but I am not sure at what
kernel release this happens. I say this because I am on RH6.2 (Zoot)
kernel 2.2.14-5.0 on an i686. Autofs works fine without a ldap entry,
but when I add the ldap: entry in the auto.master files. Autofs does
not start automount, but I do not get an error either??
I am going to load up a 7.0 version that I have, and try it there, but I
need to go all the way to 7.1 to make this work, please someone let me
know??
Brian Wert wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Let me clarify, and someone please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> You can have an /etc/auto.master and an auto.master in LDAP and NIS if you
> want to. When the automounter starts it parses the nsswitch.conf file. If
> if finds the "file" attribute it searches for /etc/auto.master. If it
> encounters the ldap attribute also in the nsswitch.conf file it will go to
> LDAP as i specified in my last post and try and find an auto.master entry.
>
> Brian Wert
