From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Blandford Subject: Re: autofs not mounting from nis maps Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:54:35 -0700 Message-ID: <4239C45B.6070100@sedona.intel.com> References: <1111004718.6120.16.camel@studio.bibu> <1111048173.5590.38.camel@studio.bibu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <1111048173.5590.38.camel@studio.bibu> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Errors-To: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: David Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org David wrote: >On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 15:31 -0800, Jim Carter wrote: > > >>On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, David wrote: >> >> >>>[root@appel2 proc]# ypcat -k auto.master >>>/home auto.home >>> >>> >>--- snip --- >> >> >>>[root@appel2 proc]# ypcat -k auto.home | head -8 >>>magnusa hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk1/& >>> >>> >>We do almost exactly the same thing, except our auto.home map includes the >>full path name, i.e. >> prob-mp sonia:/h1/guest/prob-mp >>rather than using the &. But I'm sure this is not your problem. I >>explicitly specify the map type in /etc/auto.master, i.e. >> /home yp:auto.home >>but again, I doubt that has anything to do with your problem. >> >> > >OK, found it. >There were spaces instead of tabs between key and value. Apparently NIS >chokes on that. > >Now it works. > > > > I didn't read this whole thread soI missed what version you were running. Many tabs/spaces bugs have been fixed in the 4.1.x tree. Michael