[wplug] autofs + nis under debian (resolved)

[John Harrold]

Sometime in August John Harrold assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 
| I was poking around in the manpage for auto.master and decided to specify
| that the map was being pushed by nis by using:
| 
| /home                   yp:auto.home  --timeout=60
| 
| instead of 
| 
| /home                     auto.home  --timeout=60
| 
| Which seems to do the trick, though it should have been doing that by
| default according to the man page. 

I know this thread is old, but since I found something new I thought I
should make an addendum. I was having a problem where the auto.master file
would not be recognized on the nis clients. If I created an auto.master
file on the nis client the other automount files (e.g. auto.home) would
be read properly from the nisserver. My /etc/nsswitch.conf file had the
following:

autofs:         nis files

When I added the following line:

automount:      nis

autofs started reading the auto.master file from the nis server. I'm sure
there is a good reason for this, but I'm not sure what that reason is.
However, I'm just glad to figure it out. 

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