Autofs version 4.1.4 explicitly says

# We can't do empty or direct host maps, so don't bother trying.

in file /etc/rc.d/rc.autofs.

No way to do it?
Alternate versions of autofs....



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ErgoSum <ergo@sum.yp> wrote:

> Autofs version 4.1.4 explicitly says
>
> # We can't do empty or direct host maps, so don't bother trying.
>
> in file /etc/rc.d/rc.autofs.
>
> No way to do it?
> Alternate versions of autofs....

An alternate version would be AutfsNG: http://waychison.com/autofsng/
Unfortunately development seem to have halted since SUN cancelled the
project.

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On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:19:34 +0200, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:

> ErgoSum <ergo@sum.yp> wrote:
>
>> Autofs version 4.1.4 explicitly says
>>
>> # We can't do empty or direct host maps, so don't bother trying.
>>
>> in file /etc/rc.d/rc.autofs.
>>
>> No way to do it?
>> Alternate versions of autofs....
>
> An alternate version would be AutfsNG: http://waychison.com/autofsng/
> Unfortunately development seem to have halted since SUN cancelled the
> project.
>
> regards Henrik

Thanks! I'll give a look.

I had the same problem and found the solution. I wrote it up 'in m
blog' (http://blogs.sun.com/davetong/entry/...mout_in_centos
but basically you just need to edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs and mak
this change:

getrawmounts | (
while read dir map options
do
# These checks screen out duplicates and skip over directories
# where the map is '-'.
# We can't do empty or direct host maps, so don't bother trying.

# Strip trailing slashes from the dir line if it exists to aid
# in checking for duplicate maps
dir=`echo "$dir" | sed -e "s/\/*$//"`

if [ ! -z "$map" -a "$map" = "-hosts" ] ; then
# START EDIT
IF [ -X '/ETC/AUTO.NET' ]; THEN
MAP='/ETC/AUTO.NET'
ELSE
CONTINUE
F
# END EDIT
fi
if [ $DISABLE_DIRECT -eq 1 \
-a x`echo $dir | grep -E "^/-"` != 'x' ]
then
continue
fi

Be sure to check that /etc/nsswitch.conf contains an entry automount
files nis and you may also need to edit /etc/auto.master to uncommen
the line /net /etc/auto.net

Hope this helps
Dav

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