Bug 9984

Summary:	separate autofs executable and config files
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	sean
Component:	autofs	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Version:	6.2	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description sean 2000-03-05 18:48:11 UTC

autofs will not automatically check NIS for an auto.master map if there is
an auto.master file that already exists in /etc.

So, when I deploy a RH workstation that autofs mounts it's homedirectories
off of an NFS server it comes up in a basic way ready to log in (with NIS
already working, etc) except that autofs isn't seeing the NIS maps because
there is a sample auto.master file that gets installed.

it would be wonderful if that file could be renamed to auto.master.example
or put in a separate RPM that didn't have to be installed.  Then autofs
would "just work" on the first boot of the workstation.

(or, I guess another option would be to modify autofs such that it always
checks for an NIS-supplied auto.master map regardless of the existance of
an auto.master file)

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-03-06 13:05:59 UTC

This is fixed in Raw Hide, where autofs(18) starts after ypbind(17).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9925 ***

Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-03-06 13:06:59 UTC

Whoops, 9985 is the duplicate.

Comment 3 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-03-06 14:07:59 UTC

We generally don't split configuration files from the packages they go with,
because the defaults are correct for most cases.  The behavior you're seeing
is the result of a fix for an earlier bug report, where conflicting entries in
the file and NIS caused problems.  If you're deploying workstations using
kickstart, you can add:
rm -f /etc/auto.master
to your %post section, and that will solve your problem.

Comment 4 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-04-05 20:06:59 UTC

I've just put autofs-3.1.4-6 into Raw Hide
(ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/), which
backs out the change that ignores NIS auto.master in favor
of merging the two.  Please let me know if switching to this
version solves the problem.

Comment 5 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-06-10 21:25:16 UTC

I haven't heard anything in about six weeks, so I'm closing this bug out.