On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 09:16 -0800, Peter Schmidt wrote: > Ian Kent wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 14:23 -0800, Peter Schmidt wrote: > > > > > (Sorry if this turns up as a double post as I first tried to post from a > > > non list account) > > > > > > I think what I want is provided by the replicated server feature but I > > > can't get it to work. > > > > > > I want to search multiple map files that refer to the same mount point. > > > e.g in the auto.master file can I do something like: > > > > > > /home yp:auto.home1,ldap:nisMapName=auto.home2,ou=mygroup,o=mycompany > > > > > > If it can't find the entry in auto.home1 then query auto.home2 > > > > > > > Maybe something like (the old method): > > /home multi: yp:auto.home1 -- > > ldap:nisMapName=auto.home2,ou=mygroup,o=mycompany > > > > should do it. > > > > But you should also be able to use: > > In /etc/nsswitch.conf > > automount: files nis ldap > > > > and in /etc/auto.master: > > /home /etc/auto.home > > > > and in /etc/auto.home > > +auto.home1 > > +auto.home2 > > > > If entries in your maps are all fully qualified you should be able to > > set "automount: files" in /etc/nsswitch and in /etc/auto.home do: > > +yp:auto.home1 > > +ldap:nisMapName=auto.home2,ou=mygroup,o=mycompany > > > > Ian > > > > > > > Ian, neither of these work. Looks like the first suggestion is > supposed to work with autofs 4 & the second is supported in autofs 5? > I'm running rhel4 update 7 which has both autofs 4.1.3-234 & > 5.0.1-0.rc2.88 installed. > > Any other suggestions that I could try?
The first should work with both versions of autofs but I think there was an outstanding bug with multiple map lookups in rev 88 for autofs5. How about providing a debug of this for v4. See http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer for tips on providing this and post your maps. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
