I'm having trouble working out how the automount daemon decides on
what remote filesystems it should mount.
I have worked out that it's the file /etc/auto.master that controls
what automount does but I can't really understand the syntax of that
file - the man pages are a little opaque/obtuse.
My /etc/auto.master has the following entries:-
/misc /etc/auto.misc
/net -hosts
+auto.master
(Plus quite a few unhelpfule comments)
I can basically understand the first line, that uses the file
/etc/auto.misc to automount CD drives and floppy drives.
I don't really understand what the "/net -hosts" line does, I think
it means that you'll get automounted directories in /net from hosts
listed in /etc/hosts. Anyway it isn't mounting the directory I'm
interested in.
What I really *can't* fathom out is that last line the "+auto,master",
it seems to be making automount mount all sorts of things but I can't
work out how or why. I *think* it's saying that automount should get
an 'auto.master' file from the places defined in the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file which has:-
automount: files nis nisplus
but I can't get to find how this actually works and I can't get to see
what auto.master it actually uses. The commadn line nis utilities
refuse to admit to there bing any automount information. How can I
get to see what 'automount' information is available?
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Chris Green
