>P.S. Oh ... one other OS problem: I am an "amd" neophyte and just tried to get
>     it going.  It does everything fine - catches references to the mount point
>     directories, knows to go look up the map entry in the NIS map (yes, I
>     have "ypbind" running as well, and it seems to work wonderfully so far).
>     But when it queries the NIS server, instead of asking for the key -
>     e.g., if I reference "/home/earle", it doesn't ask the NIS server for the
>     entry "earle" in the "auto.home" map - it asks for a "/defaults" entry:
>
>19:29:20.48545 netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov -> nisserver.jpl.nasa.gov NIS C ORDER
>map auto.home in nisdomain
>19:29:20.48819 nisserver.jpl.nasa.gov -> netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov NIS R ORDER
>OK order=776542748
>19:29:20.49203 netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov -> nisserver.jpl.nasa.gov NIS C MATCH
>/defaults in auto.home
>19:29:20.49369 nisserver.jpl.nasa.gov -> netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov NIS R MATCH
>No such key
>
>     What is this "/defaults" entry, and why is it trying that instead of the
>     proper map key?

Scratch this; I went rummaging through the AMD source tree and found a buried
reference to "/defaults" in the doc/amdref.ps document, so I went and killed
some trees to find out what it's all about.

	- Greg

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