Bug 164881

Summary: /etc/auto.master should ship with sane defaults
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mark Wilkinson <mhw>
Component: autofsAssignee: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Mark Wilkinson 2005-08-02 09:25:19 UTC 
Description of problem:
autofs packages currently install an auto.master that lists two mount points:
/misc and /net. /net is probably reasonable but /misc seems redundant - the
auto.misc file that it refers to contains an entry to automatically mount
/dev/cdrom on /misc/cd, but this functionality is already provided by hal.

Basically the line that says
/misc    /etc/auto.misc
should be removed from /etc/auto.master. The commented out line saying
#/misc   /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60
should be left in, but there's no point having two commented out /misc entries
that hardly differ.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
autofs-4.1.4-5

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install autofs; start service
2. Check the mount points that automount is running on
3. ls /misc/cd
  
Actual results:
automount runs on /misc and provides an alternative way to mount /dev/cdrom, but
without being aware of whether the device actually exists or is the only CD
drive, or even the only removable media.

Expected results:
Removable media should be handled by HAL, which does a better job. autofs
shouldn't be getting involved with this unless the user wants to configure it to.
Comment 1 Jeff Moyer 2005-08-02 12:17:03 UTC 
We take the upstream defaults.  Please report your concerns at
autofs.org.

Thanks.