Ian Kent wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:53 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > >> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:32 +0200, Stef Bon wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> when I read the manpage for auto.master (and other docs) I see that I >>> can include another master file by doing: >>> >>> +auto.master >>> >>> The comment says that by doing so, the you can specify a master map >>> which is found using >>> nsswitch sources. >>> What happens then? Where does it look then? >>> >> If you have a line in /etc/nsswitch.conf like: >> >> automount: files nis >> >> it will look in /etc for auto.master (files) and try to connect to a nis >> server and ask for auto.master. >> > > There's actually a bit more to it than that because of the possibility > of different actions, such as continuing or returning when a source is > found or not. > Thanks a lot for the info.
Stef Bon BTW I'm working on documentating the construction I'm using right now. It's not ready, but when I'm happy, I will also redo the already existing documentation on howtoforge. Look at: http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/automountsmbshares/automountsmbshares-page01a.php _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
