Is the "program" format correct ?

["Andreas Neuper" <ANeuper@web.de>]

Hello,

I am new to the list.  I wanted to use the program format to provide some good solution.
Unfortunately, it showed a strange behaviour.  It seems to me, nobody really ever used it!
Your example delivered with the distribuion works, although it should not IMHO.  
I would expect that the program format causes the same action as
e.g. a nis-map or a file. Maybe I am wrong with my expectations. 
Try this: 

~# cat /etc/auto.master
/auto   /etc/auto.auto

~# cat <<*** >/etc/auto.cat
#!/bin/sh
grep -v ^# /etc/auto.auto
exit 0
***
~# chmod a+x /etc/auto.cat
~# /etc/auto.cat

floppy  -fstype=auto                            :/dev/fd0
video   -fstype=nfs,rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192    ok:/home/video

~# echo "/tmp/cat       /etc/auto.cat" >> /etc/auto.master
~# /etc/rc.d/autofs restart
~# ls /auto/video
.       ..      DVD
~# ls /tmp/cat/
.       ..
~# ls /tmp/cat/video
^C
~# tail -5 /var/log/messages
Aug  8 16:26:21 akemi automount[6212]: mount(nfs): host -fstype=auto: lookup failure
Aug  8 16:26:21 akemi automount[6212]: mount(nfs): host : lookup failure
Aug  8 16:26:21 akemi automount[6215]: mount(nfs): host floppy: lookup failure
Aug  8 16:26:21 akemi automount[6215]: mount(nfs): host -fstype=auto: lookup failure
Aug  8 16:26:21 akemi automount[6215]: mount(nfs): host : lookup failure

thanks for reading.  Is there a simple solution?
Andreas
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