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. -- David. ________________________________________________________________________ David van der Spoel, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Molecular Biophysics group, Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University. Husargatan 3, Box 596, 75124 Uppsala, Sweden phone: 46 18 471 4205 fax: 46 18 511 755 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://xray.bmc.uu.se/~spoel ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
