On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Ian Kent wrote: > Is there some reason you can't update the master map and send a HUP > signal to the daemon?
Actually we have a (simpler) setup: the master map refers to a NIS map for home directories (would be LDAP on a non-Solaris-derived installation). This map is rebuilt whenever a user is added, removed or relocated, and automount sees the change for $USER at the next attempt to mount /home/$USER. When users have special file storage they refer to /net/$HOST/$filesys (example: /net/julia/h1) and whatever path components are below it. If it's not acceptable to hard-code the host (and with 30,000 users where potentially all of them need to do this, likely hardcoded hostnames and partitions are not cool), we would create another NIS or LDAP map analogous to auto.home, and update and republish it whenever a user's special storage was altered. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key) _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
