On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 17:58 +0900, Ian Kent wrote: > 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.
Oh .. and does it's best to continue to work with existing version 4 maps. > > 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 _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
