On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 15:31 -0800, Jim Carter wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, David wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]# ypcat -k auto.master
> > /home  auto.home
> --- snip ---
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]# ypcat -k auto.home | head -8
> > magnusa  hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk1/&
> 
> We do almost exactly the same thing, except our auto.home map includes the
> full path name, i.e.
>       prob-mp sonia:/h1/guest/prob-mp
> rather than using the &.  But I'm sure this is not your problem.  I 
> explicitly specify the map type in /etc/auto.master, i.e. 
>       /home           yp:auto.home
> but again, I doubt that has anything to do with your problem.

OK, found it. 
There were spaces instead of tabs between key and value. Apparently NIS
chokes on that.

Now it works.



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David.
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