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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: Which version to uses, nsswitch.conf parse errors
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:19:56 +0800
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To: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>
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Marc Weber wrote:
> Hi at all,
> 
> I'd like to add some automount support to the nixos linux distribution.
> however I don't know exactly which version to I should use?
> 
> automount v5 (autfs4 kernel module (?)) or automount v4?
> 
> For now I've tried v5. However when starting automount I get some parse
> errors:
> 
> [...]
> --accepting rule at line 92 ("
> ")
> --accepting rule at line 92 ("
> ")
> --accepting rule at line 87 ("automount:")
> --accepting rule at line 95 (" ")
> --accepting rule at line 97 ("files")
> syntax error in nsswitch config near [ syntax error ]

This probably results from not having a <NL> at the end of the line.
It's not a simple matter to deal with this invalid input as we read the
nsswitch input from a stream and <EOF> needs to be handled by the parser
not the rules.

Ian