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| author | Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> | 2021-05-24 13:34:14 +0800 |
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| committer | Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> | 2021-07-07 10:28:54 +0800 |
| commit | b2be38b9984f31b81c496ec652ca10ed303d4b8a (patch) | |
| tree | d6fcba7e8747ccada74d826e569b933db6a7fd57 | |
| parent | a2440a33a7ecb6b318482235eb08e36a0cfb9394 (diff) | |
| download | autofs-b2be38b9984f31b81c496ec652ca10ed303d4b8a.tar.gz | |
autofs-5.1.7 - add missing desciption of null map option
The description of how the -null master map option behaves is
mising from auto.master(5).
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGELOG | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/auto.master.5.in | 19 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ - eliminate redundant cache lookup in tree_mapent_add_node(). - fix hosts map offset order. - fix direct mount deadlock. +- add missing description of null map option. 25/01/2021 autofs-5.1.7 - make bind mounts propagation slave by default. diff --git a/man/auto.master.5.in b/man/auto.master.5.in index 72fbfd23..16717015 100644 --- a/man/auto.master.5.in +++ b/man/auto.master.5.in @@ -265,6 +265,25 @@ accessing /net/myserver will mount exports from myserver on directories below NOTE: mounts done from a hosts map will be mounted with the "nosuid,nodev" options unless overridden by explicitly specifying the "suid", "dev" options in the master map entry. +.SH BUILTIN MAP \-null +If "\-null" is given as the map it is used to tell automount(8) to ignore a subsequent +master map entry with the given path. +.P +It can only be used for paths that appear in the master map (or in direct mount maps). +.P +An indirect mount map top level mount point path can be nulled. If so no mounts from +the nulled mount are performed (essentially it isn't mounted). +.P +Direct mount map path entries can be nulled. Since they must be present at startup +they are (notionally) part of the master map. +.P +A nulled master map entry path will ignore a single subsequent matching entry. Any +matching entry following that will be treated as it normally would be. An example +use of this is allowing local master map entries to override remote ones. +.P +NOTE: If a duplicate master map entry path is seen (excluding paths of null entries) +it will be ignored and noted in the log, that is the first encountered master map +entry is used unless there is a corresponding null entry. .SH LDAP MAPS If the map type \fBldap\fP is specified the mapname is of the form \fB[//servername/]dn\fP, where the optional \fBservername\fP is |