[ANNOUNCE] autofs 5.0.0 beta5 beta release

[ANNOUNCE] autofs 5.0.0 beta5 beta release

[Ian Kent]

Hi all,

Another beta.

A few changes since beta4.

Please find a little time to check this out.

autofs
======

The package can be found at:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5

It is autofs-5.0.0_beta5.tar.[gz|bz2]

No source rpm is there as it can be produced by using:

rpmbuild -ts autofs-5.0.0_beta5.tar.gz

and the binary rpm by using:

rpmbuild -tb autofs-5.0.0_beta5.tar.gz

See the INSTALL file for information about configure options and
kernel requirements.

Here are the entries from the CHANGELOG which outline the updates:

20/6/2006 autofs-5.0.0_beta5
----------------------------
- re-instate v4 directory cleanup.
- backout master map lookup changes made to beta3.
- change default master map from /etc/auto.master to auto.master
  so that we always use nsswitch to locate master map.
- change default installed master map to include "+auto.master"
  to pickup NIS master map.
- correct config names in default.c (jpro@bas.ac.uk).
- check base of offset mount tree is not a mount before umounting
  its offsets.
- fix replicated mount parse for case where last name in list
  fails lookup.
- correct indirect mount expire broken by the wildcard lookup fix.
- fix up multi-mount handling when wildcard map entry present.
- fix mutex not being unlocked on map read.
- fix rpc routines not logging errors.
- fix handling of invalid directory for nobrowse hosts map lookup.
- add free for working var in get_default_logging.
- add inialisation for kver in autofs_point struct.
- fix sources list corruption in check_update_map_sources.
- fix memory leak in walk_tree.
- fix memory leak in rpc_portmap_getport and rpc_ping_proto.
- fix memory leak in initialisation of lookup modules.
- fix handling of master map entry update.
- fix program map handling of invalid multi-mount offsets.
- move autofs4 module loading back to init script.
- add export access list matching to "hosts" lookup module.
- add check for key length to long (Jeff Moyer).
- add patch to restrict /proc lookup to pid directories (Jeff Moyer).
- fix directory cleanup at exit.

Ian

Re: [autofs] [ANNOUNCE] autofs 5.0.0 beta5 beta release

[Peter C. Norton]

Using auto.master will break NIS+ (and possibly sql-based nsswich
modules, if there are any in real use), which uses auto_master since
"." is used as the namespace heirarchy separator. If you're going to
assume a name, you may want to see if there's a per-nameservice way of
specifying the map/schema/table to look up.

-Peter

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:07:10PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Another beta.
> 
> A few changes since beta4.
> 
> Please find a little time to check this out.
> 
> autofs
> ======
> 
> The package can be found at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5
> 
> It is autofs-5.0.0_beta5.tar.[gz|bz2]
> 
> No source rpm is there as it can be produced by using:
> 
> rpmbuild -ts autofs-5.0.0_beta5.tar.gz
> 
> and the binary rpm by using:
> 
> rpmbuild -tb autofs-5.0.0_beta5.tar.gz
> 
> See the INSTALL file for information about configure options and
> kernel requirements.
> 
> Here are the entries from the CHANGELOG which outline the updates:
> 
> 20/6/2006 autofs-5.0.0_beta5
> ----------------------------
> - re-instate v4 directory cleanup.
> - backout master map lookup changes made to beta3.
> - change default master map from /etc/auto.master to auto.master
>   so that we always use nsswitch to locate master map.
> - change default installed master map to include "+auto.master"
>   to pickup NIS master map.
> - correct config names in default.c (jpro@bas.ac.uk).
> - check base of offset mount tree is not a mount before umounting
>   its offsets.
> - fix replicated mount parse for case where last name in list
>   fails lookup.
> - correct indirect mount expire broken by the wildcard lookup fix.
> - fix up multi-mount handling when wildcard map entry present.
> - fix mutex not being unlocked on map read.
> - fix rpc routines not logging errors.
> - fix handling of invalid directory for nobrowse hosts map lookup.
> - add free for working var in get_default_logging.
> - add inialisation for kver in autofs_point struct.
> - fix sources list corruption in check_update_map_sources.
> - fix memory leak in walk_tree.
> - fix memory leak in rpc_portmap_getport and rpc_ping_proto.
> - fix memory leak in initialisation of lookup modules.
> - fix handling of master map entry update.
> - fix program map handling of invalid multi-mount offsets.
> - move autofs4 module loading back to init script.
> - add export access list matching to "hosts" lookup module.
> - add check for key length to long (Jeff Moyer).
> - add patch to restrict /proc lookup to pid directories (Jeff Moyer).
> - fix directory cleanup at exit.
> 
> Ian
> 
> _______________________________________________
> autofs mailing list
> autofs@linux.kernel.org
> http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs

-- 
The 5 year plan:
In five years we'll make up another plan.
Or just re-use this one.

Re: [autofs] [ANNOUNCE] autofs 5.0.0 beta5 beta release

[Ian Kent]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Peter C. Norton wrote:

> Using auto.master will break NIS+ (and possibly sql-based nsswich
> modules, if there are any in real use), which uses auto_master since
> "." is used as the namespace heirarchy separator. If you're going to
> assume a name, you may want to see if there's a per-nameservice way of
> specifying the map/schema/table to look up.

Yes.

We've been to and fro on this several times now.
And as you point out the issue is likely to come up again.

There is a conflict between compatibility and supporting the naming of 
previous versions of Linux autofs.

At the moment I'm making the assumption that people that use nisplus will 
change the autofs configuration default for the master map name in their 
post install scripts during the build process. I expect that many builds 
would customise the default master map itself as well.

In the autofs config:

DEFAULT_MASTER_MAP_NAME="auto_master"

is all that's needed, but yes I know it's a hastle.

> 
> -Peter
> 
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:07:10PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Another beta.
> > 
> > A few changes since beta4.
> > 
> > Please find a little time to check this out.
> > 
> > autofs
> > ======
> > 
> > The package can be found at:
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5
> > 
> > It is autofs-5.0.0_beta5.tar.[gz|bz2]
> > 
> > No source rpm is there as it can be produced by using:
> > 
> > rpmbuild -ts autofs-5.0.0_beta5.tar.gz
> > 
> > and the binary rpm by using:
> > 
> > rpmbuild -tb autofs-5.0.0_beta5.tar.gz
> > 
> > See the INSTALL file for information about configure options and
> > kernel requirements.
> > 
> > Here are the entries from the CHANGELOG which outline the updates:
> > 
> > 20/6/2006 autofs-5.0.0_beta5
> > ----------------------------
> > - re-instate v4 directory cleanup.
> > - backout master map lookup changes made to beta3.
> > - change default master map from /etc/auto.master to auto.master
> >   so that we always use nsswitch to locate master map.
> > - change default installed master map to include "+auto.master"
> >   to pickup NIS master map.
> > - correct config names in default.c (jpro@bas.ac.uk).
> > - check base of offset mount tree is not a mount before umounting
> >   its offsets.
> > - fix replicated mount parse for case where last name in list
> >   fails lookup.
> > - correct indirect mount expire broken by the wildcard lookup fix.
> > - fix up multi-mount handling when wildcard map entry present.
> > - fix mutex not being unlocked on map read.
> > - fix rpc routines not logging errors.
> > - fix handling of invalid directory for nobrowse hosts map lookup.
> > - add free for working var in get_default_logging.
> > - add inialisation for kver in autofs_point struct.
> > - fix sources list corruption in check_update_map_sources.
> > - fix memory leak in walk_tree.
> > - fix memory leak in rpc_portmap_getport and rpc_ping_proto.
> > - fix memory leak in initialisation of lookup modules.
> > - fix handling of master map entry update.
> > - fix program map handling of invalid multi-mount offsets.
> > - move autofs4 module loading back to init script.
> > - add export access list matching to "hosts" lookup module.
> > - add check for key length to long (Jeff Moyer).
> > - add patch to restrict /proc lookup to pid directories (Jeff Moyer).
> > - fix directory cleanup at exit.
> > 
> > Ian
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > autofs mailing list
> > autofs@linux.kernel.org
> > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
> 
> -- 
> The 5 year plan:
> In five years we'll make up another plan.
> Or just re-use this one.
>