From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Deragon Subject: Re: auto.net gets a key with a path under SLES9. Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:28:39 -0500 Message-ID: <437A0CB7.20701@deragon.biz> References: <4378ED9A.6090903@deragon.biz> <17273.61751.864306.585017@segfault.boston.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: 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: Ian Kent Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org 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 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 -- Consultant en informatique/Software Consultant Deragon Informatique inc. http://www.deragon.biz Open source (contribution): mailto://hans@deragon.biz http://autopoweroff.deragon.biz