Automounter - need documentation on auto.master options

[Eur Ing Chris Green]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:08:28PM +0100, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> ...
> >My /etc/auto.master has the following entries:-
> >
> >    /misc /etc/auto.misc
> >    /net  -hosts
> >    +auto.master
> >
> >(Plus quite a few unhelpfule comments)
> 
> The following comment is rather helpful:
> 
> # For details of the format look at autofs(5).
> 
I have looked at that, and it says absolutely nothing about that
"+auto.master" entry at the end.  According to autofs(5) all entries
should be of the form "key [-options] location".


> What are you trying to make the automounter do
> for you?
> 
I'm trying to *stop* it from automounting some directories but I can't
even find where it's getting the list from.  As I said I *think* it's
getting further data (from a remote 'automount master') via that
+auto.master entry but I can't find any sort of documentation on how
it works.

-- 
Chris Green