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jourdan

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From: Canada

Registered: 2006-01-22

Posts: 40

AUTOFS Configuration

Curious to know why the AutoFS configuration is such:

/etc/conf.d autofs
/etc/autofs/*
/etc/default/autofs

as opposed to something like Gentoo's:

/etc/autofs/*

where the options being passed to automount are in the "auto.master" instead of spread out between "/etc/conf.d/autofs" and "/etc/default/autofs".

I think that passing the options via "auto.master" is closer to what the man pages describe.  I suppose I could always change the script "/etc/rc.d/autofs".  Any insights?

Romashka

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

Re: AUTOFS Configuration

I don't see anything wrong with current autofs config files scheme. And the need of changing any rc.d scripts by user means that they are poorly written because doesn't allow changing some options without changing script's code.

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iBertus

Member

From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: AUTOFS Configuration

You could submit a feature request via the bug tracker and see if the devs agree with your logic.

jourdan

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2006-01-22

Posts: 40

Re: AUTOFS Configuration

I'll try the feature request route, only because I think the locations could be simpler for these config files (in one place under /etc).