On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:08:28PM +0100, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > Eur Ing Chris Green wrote: > ... > >My /etc/auto.master has the following entries:- > > > > /misc /etc/auto.misc > > /net -hosts > > +auto.master > > > >(Plus quite a few unhelpfule comments) > > The following comment is rather helpful: > > # For details of the format look at autofs(5). > I have looked at that, and it says absolutely nothing about that "+auto.master" entry at the end. According to autofs(5) all entries should be of the form "key [-options] location". > What are you trying to make the automounter do > for you? > I'm trying to *stop* it from automounting some directories but I can't even find where it's getting the list from. As I said I *think* it's getting further data (from a remote 'automount master') via that +auto.master entry but I can't find any sort of documentation on how it works. -- Chris Green