As I've mentioned in passing , at one point we gotso irritated with peculiar automounter issues that we wrote our ownreplacement that does what we want . It turned outto be fairly simple, because what we want is just to keep each system'smounted NFS filesystems in sync with a master list.

Since this is basically diff , you could clearly do this in a shellscript. I opted to write the core of the system in Python so that itwould be easier to handle an existing mount changing