Re: include a master file: where does the automounter look

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

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.

So, it depends on the source specified in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

> 
> When I add a line with an auto.master file with full path:
> 
> +/var/run/autofs/auto.master
> 
> it works also.

That's right.
This just prevents autofs from consulting /etc/nsswitch.conf because it
doesn't need to.

Ian