On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> J.P. King wrote:
> > Ideally we would do something like include all the files from a 
> > configuration directory and have a HUP get it to re-read all these 
> > configuration snippets.  This would be a relatively involved change 
> > however.
> > 
> 
> This sounds like a perfect use of an executable map to me.  I don't know 
> exactly what your maps look like, but it seems to me that since you have 
> an unusual local requirement it would make sense to deal with it in a 
> manner external to autofs itself.

That's an excellent suggestion!  At my site we used an executable map to 
get the effect of submounts, before I figured out how to do the job with 
submounts.  It was reliable and reasonably efficient.

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