On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:30:17AM +0200, Alexis Huxley wrote: > > Without some suggestion there's no telling how many maps people will > > create or what they'll decide to call them.
> no examples in the AMD sources of use of any other map besides > the amd.home map, you believe /var/yp/Makefile should *also* > not use any other example Yes. Like I say, without prompting I would not like to rely on > - despite that the comments included in > /etc/am-utils.amd.conf are somewhat misaligned with what is in > /var/yp/Makefile and that /var/yp/Makefile will for sure need to be > modified by anyone using AMD? I have already adjusted the path to amd.home in the Makefile. As I said previously and you have confirmed I can find no reference to any other maps in the documentation so there is nothing to get out of sync. > Well, personally I do not agree with this; I see an opportunity > to reduce the misalignment between the three packages (amd/nis and > amd/autofs) within Debian and to potentially alleviate sysadmins of > a little frustration and effort, but ... Well, a good place to start would be getting the documentation for am-utils updated to recommend a standard set of maps to use for the server side and a standard convention for naming those maps. Right now it doesn't look like there's terribly much documentation at all for doing this in there - another way of putting what I'm saying is that there doesn't seem to be much for NIS to integrate with. As far as I can tell there's very little documentation at all about how to set this up. For example, the cookbook says that you will have to edit the NIS Makefile to generate the maps but it doesn't provide any information about where it expects the files to be (there's only one reference to etc in the cookbook and that's not a path). There's not a comment in the sample master file saying where it should be installed and the sample map files appear to be named with a different convention to the example listed in /etc/am-utils/amd.conf (they use a_ rather than amd. as a prefix). I'd be happy to add something to match the am-utils suggestions if there were some clearer suggestions from the am-utils package. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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