This patch addresses the problem if a user has the following in one of their automount maps: # auto.misc test -fstype=autofs auto.m2 Before it would automatically assume that auto.m2 was a yp/nis map. The patch now checks if the file exists in /etc/ (and if it's a file or program map) or if it exists in yp (according to the order in nsswitch.conf). In the future we may want to include functionality in the lookup_xxx.so modules so we can more easily detect if a certain map exists. Thanks, Chris