From zappa.fef.com!real-alvin Wed Oct 14 13:25:40 1998
From: "Larry M. Augustin" <lma@varesearch.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 06:16:12 -0700 (PDT)
To: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
Cc: "Larry M. Augustin" <lma@varesearch.com>, svlug@svlug.org
Subject: Re: [svlug] automount using NIS maps on RedHat 5.1?
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Ah.  The script has changed in the newer release.  It used to be the
case that if a file by the name did not exist, the script try a yp map
also.  It looks to me like that's not the case anymore.

Well, here's the quick and easy answer.  Just run:

        /usr/sbin/automount /directory yp yp-map-name

Where "/directory" is the directory and yp-map-name is the name of the
yp map.

I see that the script now looks for a yp map named auto.master, and
starts automount using the "yp" flag for any maps it lists.

So:

    1. create a yp map named auto.master.
    2. Put any yp autofs maps into the yp auto.master file.

Larry


FYI from the autofs rc script:

#
#	Check for YellowPage maps to be loaded
#
if [ -e /usr/bin/ypcat ] && [ `ypcat -k auto.master 2>/dev/null | wc -l` -gt 0 ]
then
    ypcat -k auto.master | (
	while read dir map options
	do
	    if [ ! -z "$dir" -a ! -z "$map" \
			-a x`echo "$map" | cut -c1` != 'x-' ]
	    then
		map=`echo "$map" | sed -e 's/^auto_/auto./'`
		if echo $options | grep -- '-t' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
		    mountoptions="--timeout $(echo $options | \
		      sed 's/^.*-t\(imeout\)*[ \t]*\([0-9][0-9]*\).*$/\2/g')"
		fi
		options=`echo "$options" | sed -e '
		  s/--*t\(imeout\)*[ \t]*[0-9][0-9]*//g
		  s/\(^\|[ \t]\)-/\1/g'`
		echo "/usr/sbin/automount $mountoptions $dir yp $map $options $localoptions"
	    fi
	done
    )
fi
}


Bill Janssen writes:
 > Excerpts from direct: 13-Oct-98 [svlug] automount using NIS.. "Larry M.
 > Augustin"@vare (880)
 > 
 > > 3. Put your map name in /etc/auto.master (see the autofs rc script
 > > that starts autofs and reads auto.master).
 > 
 > What's the syntax for this step?  I read the autofs script, and saw no
 > automount daemons with "yp" maps being started from the auto.master
 > file...  Here's the pertinent script, in fact:
 > 
 > if [ -f /etc/auto.master ]
 > then
 >     cat /etc/auto.master | sed -e '/^#/d' -e '/^$/d'| (
 > 	while read dir map options
 > 	do
 > 	    if [ ! -z "$dir" -a ! -z "$map" \
 > 			-a x`echo "$map" | cut -c1` != 'x-' ]
 > 	    then
 > 		map=`echo "/etc/$map" | sed -e 's:^/etc//:/:'`
 >  		# special: treat -t or --timeout (or any reasonable derivative)
 >  		# specially, since it can't be made a normal mount option.
 >  		if echo $options | grep -- '-t' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
 >  		    mountoptions="--timeout $(echo $options | \
 >  		      sed 's/^.*-t\(imeout\)*[ \t]*\([0-9][0-9]*\).*$/\2/g')"
 >  		fi
 >  		options=`echo "$options" | sed -e '
 >  		  s/--*t\(imeout\)*[ \t]*[0-9][0-9]*//g
 >  		  s/\(^\|[ \t]\)-/\1/g'`
 > 		if [ -x $map ]; then
 > 		    echo "/usr/sbin/automount $mountoptions $dir program $map $options $localoptions"
 > 		elif [ -f $map ]; then
 > 		    echo "/usr/sbin/automount $mountoptions $dir file $map $options $localoptions"
 > 		else
 > 		    echo "/usr/sbin/automount $mountoptions $dir `basename $map` $options $localoptions"
 > 		fi
 > 	    fi
 > 	done
 >     )
 > fi
 > 
 > Bill
 > 
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