On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 21:08 +0100, James Pearson wrote:
> James Pearson wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, I should have said - this is CentOS 5.5 with autofs
> > 5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5_5.6 - and I've also tried it with
> > 5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5_6.2 - with the same result.
> >
> > It is easy to reproduce - with an included NIS map - if I do:
> >
> > /etc/init.d/autofs stop; date -s "1 minute"; /etc/init.d/autofs start;
> > date -s "-1 minute"
> >
> > This creates the automount mount point 1 minute into the future.
> >
> > Then if I try to access a server defined in the NIS map, the mount fails.
> >
> > However, if I wait a minute (i.e until the system clock passes the date
> > stamp of the mount point), the automount of file systems in the NIS map
> > works fine.
> >
> > Is it possible to get a copy of the autofs RPM for RHEL-5.7 to test?
>
> I had a look at the RHEL5 5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5_6.2 source - and the
> following patch appears to 'fix' my problem - it's a bit of a hack - as
> in the included NIS map case, it just resets the age of the map to
> 'now', if it is in the future.
>
> James Pearson
>
> plain text document attachment (autofs-5.0.1-future.patch)
> --- ./daemon/lookup.c.mpc 2011-06-18 20:04:51.076507000 +0100
> +++ ./daemon/lookup.c 2011-06-18 20:52:18.436154033 +0100
> @@ -848,6 +848,12 @@ int lookup_nss_mount(struct autofs_point
> struct map_source *map;
> enum nsswitch_status status;
> int result = 0;
> + time_t now = time(NULL);
> +
> + if (entry->age > now) {
> + debug(ap->logopt, "map %s age in the future - changing it to
> now", entry->path);
> + entry->age = now;
> + }
>
> /*
> * For each map source (ie. each entry for the mount
That sounds a bit like bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632471
It was fixed in development revision 152, which I happen to have on
people.redhat.com. You could give that a try.
http://people.redhat.com/~ikent/autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.152.el5/
Keep in mind that there were a few other fixes that went into the final
release version so your mileage may vary.
Ian
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