Greetings!
Scott McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue 29/02 12:43 -0800:
> > > That would take too long at large sites. How about
> > >
> > > +if [ `ypcat -k $map 2>/dev/null | head | wc -l` -eq 0 ] ; then
> > > + map=`echo "$map" | sed -e 's/^auto_/auto./'`
> > > +fi
> > >
> > > besides what about when auto_home is just "+auto.home" ?
> >
> > Handling + in auto_master would be nice. The + as an entry in a map
> > is utterly and fundamentally broken (a map is an associative lookup,
> > d**** it!)
>
Handling included maps would indeed be a useful kludge. But one
requiring significant effort, it seems. How about just for now using
the heuristic above -- included maps will of course still not work,
but I think this would effectively handle other (no '+' map)
situations, and these are the errors people are actually seeing.
Any objection to me patching the Debian autofs package as above? And
separately, any objection to me patching the Debian autofs package
with the daemon patch I submitted earlier?
Thanks again!
> This may be so, and I've heard you argue this repeatedly. While I agree
> on a technical premise, I think you should think about how long NIS has
> been around, how pervasive and ubiquitous it is, and how many UNIX
> implementations out there support the maps the way Sun wrote them. I
> think it's nice for Linux to sit side-by-side with our UNIX servers
> instead of having to hack them to make them play nice.
>
> > although the same (and better) functionality can be had with "multi"
> > maps. Unfortunately, I don't know of any sane way to specify multi
> > maps in the auto_master format; it's probably time to try to recommend
> > using something like /etc/autofstab with auto_master as a
> > compatibility fallback.
>
> How about a compile-time or run-time option to turn on "Sun dain
> bramage?" in the original auto?masters *and* in the maps themselves?
> Note that I don't know the code so I don't know if this is fundamentally
> difficult to implement. I do think it's essential to a heterogenous
> UNIX environment though.
>
> --
> Scott
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