On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 14:00 -0800, David Mack wrote: > I work in an environment in which Solaris and Linux machines NIS mount > the same automount maps, including auto.master. Typically, > /etc/auto.master just contains "+auto.master" on all of them. > > With the advent of autofs5, this has started breaking. To get the > Linux machines running autofs5 to work, we've had to replace > /etc/auto.master with a version that looks something like this: > > /volume yp:auto.vols > /system yp:auto.home > /local yp:auto.local > /homes yp:auto.homes > /home yp:auto.home > /xfn -xfn > /net -hosts -nosuid > > The NIS version (used by Solaris and older Linux machines) looks like this: > > /volume auto.vols -intr,bg,tcp > /system auto.home > /local auto.local > /homes auto.homes -intr,bg,tcp > /home auto.home > /xfn -xfn > /net -hosts -nosuid > > > Needless to say, I'm not wild about having to install a separate > /etc/auto.master on every new Linux machine. > > It appears that the problem is that autofs5 doesn't like parameters > introduces with hyphens in auto.master, which Solaris unfortunately > requires. > > Is there any way around this situation that will allow me to continue > to use a NIS-mounted auto.master on all of my machines? > > I apologize if this was discussed to death a couple of years ago - I > looked in the archive and didn't find anything. > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > autofs mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
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