On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 09:19 -0400, Peter Staubach wrote: > Ian Kent wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 15:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Hey all- > >> > >> I'm testing out CentOS 5 (i.e. RedHat 5) and and playing around with > >> autofs 5.0.1 which is the version that ships with it. I'm noticing three > >> odd things based on what I was seeing in RedHat 4.4 (which has autofs > >> 4.1.3): > >> > >> 1: Before, with autofs 4.1.3, I had in /etc/nsswitch.conf: > >> > >> automount: files ldap > >> > >> And I had some maps in /etc/auto.master that mounted AND I had some maps > >> in LDAP that mounted, both worked OK together. But in Autofs 5.0.1, the > >> same line in nsswitch.conf only lets me use whatever is first, i.e. if > >> files is listed first it automounts with flat files but not LDAP, or vice > >> versa. Is there any way to get them BOTH working again, or is this a > >> nifty feature that has been removed? > >> > > > > That's correct. > > That's the behavior of other industry standard automounters. > > Adding a plus include line at the end of /etc/auto.master (as in the > > default configuration) will allow the inclusion of the LDAP master map > > in the above example. > > Is this really true? My impression was that autofs implementations such as > the Solaris version would use the name service switch really as a switch. > It would look for a map following the standard rules which apply to > nsswitch.conf entries. I can remember using a combination of NIS+ and > flat files for map sources, without having to resort to the "+" tricks.
Think so. I'll check again. But I think that the first source found (master map in this case) is used. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
