Ian Kent wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:32 +0200, Stef Bon wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> when I read the manpage for auto.master (and other docs) I see that I >> can include another master file by doing: >> >> +auto.master >> >> The comment says that by doing so, the you can specify a master map >> which is found using >> nsswitch sources. >> What happens then? Where does it look then? >> > > If you have a line in /etc/nsswitch.conf like: > > automount: files nis > > it will look in /etc for auto.master (files) and try to connect to a nis > server and ask for auto.master. > Ok, it will search for the files first and after that the nis thing. But here: this line which instructed the automounter to look in the nsswitch.conf file is in a auto.master file, and then you instruct it to look for the same file again. This does not make sense to me...
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