On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 13:04 -0800, Jay Hilliard wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to sort out autofs on various platforms and would like to know > which direction is looking standard for the > future. > > auto.master or auto_master? How about for Solaris and OS-X. Which do you > recommend I use in LDAP for most cross > platform compatibility?
First, I'm going to assume your thinking autofs version 5 (and a fairly recent version at that) on Linux and that you want interoperability with the System V autofs implementation available on Solaris, OpenSolaris and OS-X. Version 5 of Linux autofs seeks to be feature compatible with these and if you find issues you should report them. On Solaris auto_master is the default, I believe this was done due to a clash with the "." in names when NIS+ was used for map storage. NIS+ has never been widely used so there's no real reason for us to change to auto_master. In any case the default master map name can be set in the autofs configuration. AFAICT the rfc2307bis schema is the default on Solaris so it may be best to use that schema. Linux autofs will check for the commonly used schema and detect maps stored using these so you should be fine using any of these common ones, at least as far as Linux is concerned. Namely, the NIS, rfc2307 and rfc2307bis schema. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
