From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Vince Busam <vbusam@google.com>
Subject: LDAP entries cached forever [PATCH]
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:25:43 -0800
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An ldap mountpoint will be cached forever until autofs is restarted or gets a SIGHUP. 
Does it make sense to alter the behavior to automatically age out old entries and re-query 
the ldap server every once in a while?

Something like this (though without the hacky environment variable config):
http://www.sixpak.org/vince/autofs-age-ldap-cache.diff

Vince