Re: include a master file: where does the automounter look

[Stef Bon <stef@bononline.nl>]

Ian Kent wrote:
> 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.
>   
Thanks a lot for the info.

Stef Bon

BTW I'm working on documentating the construction I'm using right now. 
It's not ready, but when I'm happy, I will also
redo the already existing documentation on howtoforge.

Look at:

http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/automountsmbshares/automountsmbshares-page01a.php