Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1882
problem with script /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:49 EDT
The /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs script should be enhanced. At office, user home directories are dispatched on many Solaris servers. Precise physical location is described in a NIS map on a Solaris NIS server. However, Solaris workstations keep a local auto_master master map. The current state of function getmounts() does not permit to mix a local auto.master master map with a NIS auto_home map. We had to hack the script to auto-mount user directories. I would like to contribute and modifiy this script, so that local and NIS maps can be mixed, like on Solaris platform. However, I don't know who is responsible for this script. The man page says: This manual page was written by Christoph Lameter <chris@waterf.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Edited by H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com>. Edited by Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com> to match Red Hat Linux. So I guess the script has been enhanced by Red Hat. If not, please tell me and I will contact the original maintainer.
I would appreciate any enhancements to the script that you have. Please send them directly to me, and I will make sure they get integrated.
We are currently integrating patches into our development version which provide precisely what you are asking for: supporting random mixes of local maps and yp maps.