Re: auto.net gets a key with a path under SLES9.

[Hans Deragon <hans@deragon.biz>]

Ian Kent wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> 
> 
>>==> Regarding Re: [autofs] auto.net gets a key with a path under SLES9.; Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> adds:
>>
>>raven> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Hans Deragon wrote: Thanks for reporting this
>>raven> Hans.
>>
>>
>>>>Greetings.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I compiled autofs 4.1.4 for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES9). I
>>>>did found a little problem with auto.net.  The original code has:
>>>>
>>>>key=$1
>>>>
>>>>However, under SLES9, in my network environment, $key can be of the form
>>>>"server/something[/otherthing]*", which is wrong.  $key should only be a
>>>>server name.  I fixed the problem with:
>>>>
>>>>key=`echo $1 | perl -wp -e 's%^(\w+)(\/?.+)*$%$1%;'`
>>>>
>>>>My fix removes any path after the server name.
>>
>>raven> Interesting. I'm not sure why that's happening either.
>>
>>
>>>>Exactly why automount passes a server name containg some path is unclear
>>>>for me.  But I wanted to report this here.  If other suffer from this,
>>>>you might want to consider some fix like mine (maybe using sed which is
>>>>more standard).
>>
>>raven> Yep. Sounds like a good idea.
>>
>>raven> I'll put it on the queue of stuff for 4.1 so I can do it when I
>>raven> eventually get back to it.
>>
>>Ian, this sounds more like papering over the real problem to me.  Do you
>>agree?  I'd like to see some debug output.
> 
> 
> Yep. Absolutely right.
> 
> Your post was clearly more useful than what I had to say.
> 
> And I agree it is likely one of the issues we have recently investigated.
> Perhaps the SuSE folks haven't merged some of the recent kernel patches.
> 
> Hans, could you spend a bit of time to get us a debug log please.
> 
> Ian

No problem.  Just give me instructions on how to proceed.  I am not that 
familiar with autofs and its code/features.

Best regards,
Hans Deragon
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