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Subject: Re: conf/589: poor sysconfig/rc interaction when starting amd
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On Tue, 4 Jul 1995 gjbroom@csr.uvic.ca wrote:

> 
> >Description:
> 
> 	When amd is started in /etc/rc, using $amdflags from sysconfig,
> 	it would be really *really* nice if the line read:
> 		echo -n 'amd'; eval amd ${amdflags}
> 			       ^^^^
> 	This way, you can single-quote amdflags in sysconfig, and use
> 	backquotes to get information from the NIS.  If the backquotes 
> 	are double-quoted, an NIS lookup occurs before the network is 
> 	started.  My $amdflags look like:
> 		amdflags='-a /tmp_mnt -l syslog `ypcat -k amd.master`'
> 	so amd works very much like Sun's automount (and I can automatically
> 	generate amd.master on my NIS master).
> 	
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 
> 	
> 
> >Fix:
> 	
> 	Change "amd ${amdflags}" to "eval amd ${amdflags}" in /etc/rc.
> 
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
> 
> 
Do you think it possible that you could send me your yp Makefile and a 
copy of your AMD maps we want to replace our suns automounter with AMD so 
that we can feed the FreeBSD and LinSux boxes here the same automount map.

If you would thank you.
If not I assume there is a good reason :)

Thanks again
Matthew S. Bailey
mbailey@cps.cmich.edu (please use this instead of the reply-to thanks)