Ian, Thanks for your responses. I wanted to let you know that the rpm that I installed is version 4.1.3-169. It may have been fixed in an earlier iteration, but this is the one downloaded.
dorothy -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I tried all sorts of things, to include autofs reload, autofs stop and > > start, > ypbind stop and start. > > The only thing that would work was too reboot the machine. Rebooting a > > SERVER > is not > > really something I want to do when I make changes. > > Oh and you think I don't realize that! > > > > > One of the guys in the office found an updated version of autofs. I > > installed > it, and everything > > works like a charm. > > What version? > > > > > A commentary: I found somewhere that autofs 4 was written by someone who > > did > not write > > autofs3. In fact, the author of 3 said he would like to come back to write > > 5. > It seems the author > > of 4 did not know as much about autofs as he should have to write properly > functioning code. > > Who are you talking about. > All this happened a very long time ago. > > Perhaps "me" since I took over the v4 maintenance several years ago and > 4.1.3 is one of my releases. > > The fact is that what you have should work and if it's been broken by the > addition of a patch then we need to identify which patch that is. > > You should also consider the fact that changes to the package are often > driven by requests for functionality on this list. I don't always get that > right but I try. > > You might also have a look at the CHANGELOG in 4.1.4. > The list of bugs fixed is so long that I didn't have any time to work on > developing things that really need doing. > > Previous to my current job at RedHat I worked as an infrastructure analyst > at a Solaris site. Very demanding of time as you likely realize and then > would go home and try to work on autofs. > > That was really hard. > > > > > Just one of my many frustrations with RedHat and open source.... > > How is RedHat responsible for my mistakes? > > Another fact is that there are many devoted people at RedHat that try to > fix breakage in my packages (including me) and they have a difficult time > to be sure. > > On a lighter note I must apologize (to everyone) for not being more > helpful on the list lately but I'm heavily focused on version 5 > development (which no doubt will not work properly either, ha). > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > autofs mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
