On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 08:35:32AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Since I've taken over the package, the main pain points I've seen are with > using the Linux automounter in mixed environments. Customers expect it to > operate in the same manner as the Sun automounter. This change was > intended to bring the Linux automounter semantically closer to the > bahaviour of the Sun automounter. Since you are having problems with it, I > will revert the change until such time as I implement the +auto_master > syntax in the master map. Is this an acceptable solution? I'd prefer to > not add another tunable to /etc/sysconfig/autofs, but I will if I must. I'm happy so long as the default behaviour doesn't change. Having a tunable to configure it to behave like Solaris seems reasonable to me, FWIW. joe