"Julien.Soula" wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > host b has the following local files:
> > /etc/auto.master
> > #
> > /home /etc/auto.home -timeout 120
> > +auto.master
> >
> > /etc/auto.home
> > #
> > +auto.home
> ?????
>
> "auto.home" seems to be a map-NIS so the Linux syntax is :
>
> /etc/auto.master
> #
> /home auto.home -timeout 120
>
> Linux autofs doesn't understand (til now) (+) syntax.
>
No, the + syntax is a horrible piece of evil: it turns a clean key/data
lookup into something that needs to scan the whole file. It is one of
many pieces of sheer badness in the Sun automount files structures that
I don't wish to mimic.
-hpa
