==> Regarding Re: [autofs] [PATCH] check nsswitch.conf for submounts; [EMAIL 
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raven> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Chris Feist wrote: Thanks Chris.

raven> This is a really useful bit of code.  Appart from addressing the
raven> default map problem, it is one of the pieces of code needed to move
raven> logic out of the init script.

raven> Howerver, we can't assume that maps are stored in "/etc".  This
raven> really should be a configure logical.

And why not?  Is this not precisely what the Sun automounter does?

-Jeff

>> This patch addresses the problem if a user has the following in one of
>> their automount maps: # auto.misc test -fstype=autofs auto.m2
>> 
>> Before it would automatically assume that auto.m2 was a yp/nis map.  The
>> patch now checks if the file exists in /etc/ (and if it's a file or
>> program map) or if it exists in yp (according to the order in
>> nsswitch.conf).
>> 
>> In the future we may want to include functionality in the lookup_xxx.so
>> modules so we can more easily detect if a certain map exists.
>> 
>> Thanks, Chris
>> 
>> 

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