On 02/23/2010 12:30 AM, Stef Bon wrote: > On Monday 22 February 2010 04:54:03 Ian Kent wrote: > > >>> >>> So, am I missing here something? Or has something changed? >>> When I look to the various init rc scripts, the file >>> /etc/sysconfig/autofs file is sourced. >> >> In the init script the sourcing of the configuration is redundant but >> environment variables that are exported will be seen by child processes >> (as per normal shell environment variable export rules) and can be used >> to over-ride the settings in the autofs configuration. Note that the >> internal autofs default is BROWSE_MODE="yes" and that is set to "no" by >> the default installed configuration for backward compatibility. > > > Now when I export them all, they are detected and used. I see logging and > browse mode is set to no. > > OK now I'm beginning to understand, the automounter reads the configuration > values directly, from the default configuration file. > I thought the automounter reads them from the environement, cause the conf > file is sourced at the beginning of the init file. > > I've found the code. This is, and it happens to me more often, not well > documented. Please start a wiki or something. > I know you are very busy, I recieved some copies of emails about an important > issue this weekend. > > I'm working also a lot with FUSE, and the wiki there provides a lot of > information, although it's not complete. > I would like to help if I can.
Yeah, a wiki would be useful but unless we can get a group of us (at least three people) interested in working on it (and get access details sorted out) I'm reluctant to set the request for a kernel.org autofs wiki in motion. I must admit I'm not keen on having to maintain a wiki site, as I've said before, purely because in my experience, it's actually quite a bit of work to make and keep it useful. > > Stef Bon > >> >> The USE_MISC_DEVICE is the only exception. It is used only by the init >> script for checking if /dev/autofs is present and if we want to use >> /dev/autofs for kernel communication. >> >> Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
