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From: Joseph V Moss <jmoss@ecsmtp.pdx.intel.com>
Subject: Re: -Dvariable=value not working?
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:35:07 -0700
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> I've got a Suse SLES 11 system running automount 5.0.3 which stubbornly 
> refuses to variable substitution.
> 
[...]
> I've got LOCAL_OPTIONS="-DNERCARCH=linux" in /etc/sysconfig/autofs (I've 
> also tried "-D  NERCARCH=linux", "-D NERCARCH='linux'").
[...]
> friesian:/etc/sysconfig # ps -ef|grep automount
> 
> root 14378 1 0 11:12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/automount -p 
> /var/run/automount.pid -O -DNERCARCH=linux
                         ^^^^

The -O option is consuming the next arg and using '-DNERCARCH=linux'
as a mount option.

The SLES11 autofs init script uses $LOCAL_OPTIONS like this:

	AUTOFS_OPTIONS="-O $LOCAL_OPTIONS $AUTOFS_OPTIONS"

So you need the beginning of your LOCAL_OPTIONS to be mount options.
After those, you can then do your variable assignments.

For example:

LOCAL_OPTIONS="tcp,hard,intr -DNERCARCH=linux"