From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr>
Subject: some questions about the configuration
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:10:24 +0100
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I recently started to clean-up the mandriva autofs package a bit, and I
have some questions about the default configuration handling.

First, it seems autofs-ldap-auto-master, which is installed in
/usr/lib/autofs, and auto.{net,smb}, which are installed in /etc, have
exactly the same purpose: to automatically produce a list of available
mount points from a remote host. If I am right, why are them installed
and named differently ? Apart the fact that the first one is native
code, whereas the others are shell scripts, they could as well get
installed as /usr/lib/autofs/auto.{ldap,smb,net}

Second, it's not clear why ldap and nis use are triggered from the
content of /etc/nsswitch.conf, while smb and net (simple rpcinfo
listing) use are triggered from content of /etc/auto.master. Shouldn't
all those syntax be available from both locations?

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