On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dorothy,
> 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. I think the latest update is about 176. It would be good to get some info on the ones that that you tried that were broken in case there's work needed. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
