--- Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Walser wrote: > > Problem: > > Even if you don't have nis in the automount: line > in > > /etc/nsswitch.conf, automount uses NIS. > > This is standard behavior. (NIS on Solaris and other > Unix's do this)
They don't differentiate between NIS and NIS+? Well luckily NIS+ is going away then. > This way one can have a nis server export an > auto.master file so one > doesn't have to modify every client machine on the > network when a change > to the auto.master file happens. Yeah I know how that works. > If your nis server does not export an auto.master > file then you won't > have a problem. If it does, but you need a different > auto.master file > for your autofs on linux, then remove nis and > nisplus from > nsswitch.conf. Autofs will still work with > nis/nisplus/yp maps but it > will not autoload the auto.master from your nis > server. Know that too. I'm just saying one shouldn't have to remove nisplus when all you have is nis. In case you're interested in the reason I need different maps on the Linux machines, it's because the NIS maps say to use cachefs for /home, which only works on the Solaris workstations. The Linux kernel people have considered implementing it in the past, but never did :o( > This should not be changed, then nis on linux would > be further different > from other unix's. Unix has a bug, so Linux should have it to. Linus doesn't buy that, and I don't either. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com
