On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 01:29:23AM -0600, Krishnakumar B wrote: > > For example if I have the following setup: > > 1. I export /export/home from the NFS server, nfs.example.com > 2. The NFS server is also configured to use the LDAP server to get > automount information, i.e, automount: ldap in /etc/nsswitch.conf > 3. auto_home is setup on the LDAP server to spit out something equivalent to: > > * -rw,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid nfs.example.com:/export/home > > Will autofs on nfs.example.com recognize the local mount /export/home and > use a loopback mount for /home?
Yes. > If so, do people recommend using the same > approach (using a direct mount) for /var/spool/mail on nfs.example.com? If > not, why not? > > Is there any way to disable specify exclude clauses in the mount options to > autofs? For example, can I specify some option to autofs so that on a > particular machine autofs will not use the automount entry from the > directory server. I don't know a way to specify exclude clauses in the mount options, but you might be able to do something equivalent in the LDAP query itself: I've written a patch for autofs-4.1.3 to give more flexibility with LDAP requests; in particular, it allows to specify arbitrary search filter expressions, so you should be able to include something along the lines of !(hostname=$MYSELF) into the query, if that is what you need. The patched version of modules/lookup_ldap.c is available at http://www.timof.qipc.org/autofs-4.1.3-patch Regards, Timo Felbinger -- Timo Felbinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Quantum Physics Group http://www.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de Institut fuer Physik Tel: +49 331 977 1793 Fax: -1767 Universitaet Potsdam, Germany _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
