==> Regarding Re: [autofs] autofs5: unable to locate ldap master map; Ian Kent 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
>> > use different locations to customise them. If it doesn't meet with your 
>> > approval then I'm sorry but I like it and it works well for me. And I 
>> > don't see any patch submissions from you for discussion so I guess you'll 
>> > just have to live with it.
>> I don't see the point of investing time to produce patches that will be
>> rejected, so I usually try to reach agreement before. Now, if all you
>> want is a patch, I can easily produce one, once we agree on the
>> following points:
>> - is is desirable to have distinct directories for automount
>> configuration and master map location (aka --with-confdir and
>> --with-mapdir switches) ?

raven> I think so.
raven> Certainly the map directory is different on different distributions so
raven> that's definitely a good thing to have. And your point above would imply
raven> having the configuration directory configurable is good as well.

If you're using a mixed environment (Linux and other Unix variants), then
you'll likely keep your maps in /etc/ for interoperability purposes.  As
such, I don't really see a reason to put maps elsewhere.

-Jeff

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