On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Tobias Burnus wrote: > Stephen Walton wrote: > > I use NIS to share auto.master (of course, I suppose). I've done away > > with direct mounts in the following way: My auto.master NIS map contains > > the line > > /auto /etc/auto.auto > [...] > > and the mounting host contains a symbolic link /data -> /auto/data > > It works good. > But I really want to get rid of '/-/'. That is autofs should ignore the > direct entry in auto.master instead of misinterpreting it. I don't have a patch to do this, but the parsing is done by the /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs shell script, so I suppose you could add a line to your local copy to skip /- lines. I simply eliminated all my direct mounts even on machines that supported them, and used the symbolic links workaround everywhere.
