NIS, automounting, Solaris and headaches

pll at lanminds.com pll at lanminds.com
Mon Sep 16 13:02:56 EDT 2002


In a message dated: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 12:41:13 PDT
Ken Ambrose said:

>On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Mark Komarinski wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 12:28:32PM -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote:
>>
>> A few more questions.  I'm getting closer to something that may work.
>>
>> > # auto.master
>> > /homes		yp:auto.home
>>
>> Is this the contents of /etc/auto.master, or a YP map?
>
>I believe auto.mater is always a file, though I could be mistaken.

On the clients it's usually a file that tells the client to look in 
YP for the map.  That way, when you update the file on the NIS master
you only need to update one system.
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Paul
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