From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Clif J. Smith" Subject: Re: Problem with NIS maps Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:36:37 -0500 Sender: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Message-ID: <413632D5.3090301@cjs226.com> References: <4133F97E.8060509@cjs226.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Ian Kent Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org Ian Kent wrote: >On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Clif Smith wrote: > > > >>I'm in a large heterogeneous environment located across multiple >>locations. I use NIS maps such as: >>/home -rw austin:/export/home boston:/export/home phoenix:/export/home >> >>with the following in /etc/auto.master: >>/nis yp auto_indirect_nis >> >>With AIX and Solaris, automounter chooses the server with the fewest >>hops to determine which server to mount from. Unfortunately, it appears >>Suse's 8.1 implementation of automounter (v3.1.7-556) seems to choose >>the first listed. >> >> > >Sorry, SuSE have chosen not to update to autofs v4. > >The most recent version handles this. > >You may wish to try building the SRPM from one of the FC distributions. > >Ian > > I ASSuMEd compiling it from source (4.1.3) would be even "cleaner", but when I see that /etc/init.d/autofs has: if [ -f /etc/debian_version ]; then system=debian elif [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then system=redhat else echo "$0: Unknown system, please port and contact autofs@linux.kernel.org" 1>&2 exit 1 fi Why is the source so restrictive? Moving on to the FC SRPM. cjs