From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Stef Bon <stef@bononline.nl>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: include a master file: where does the automounter look
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:04:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209373447.3243.34.camel@raven.themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209372832.3243.23.camel@raven.themaw.net>
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.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 8:32 include a master file: where does the automounter look Stef Bon
2008-04-28 8:53 ` Ian Kent
2008-04-28 9:04 ` Ian Kent [this message]
2008-04-28 9:12 ` Stef Bon
2008-04-28 9:25 ` Ian Kent
2008-04-28 14:27 ` Stef Bon
2008-04-28 14:39 ` Jeff Moyer
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