Thank you. It turns out that I need to put --Dvar=value in the
auto.master file in order to get the expected behavior.
--kelvin
Todd Denniston wrote:
> Kelvin Edwards wrote:
> > /u auto.u --timeout 60
>
> Kelvin Edwards wrote:
> >
> > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >
> > > On 15-Feb-00 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > > The claim that it's unimplemented is utterly bogus. It's implemented in
> > > > parse_sun.c.
> > >
> > > Oh, OK, that stuff. I think Kelvin is talking about a command line option to
> > > automount, but the automount manpage doesn't promise anything which isn't there.
> > >
> > > J
> >
> > Exactly. I would like to be able to define a system dependent variable other
> > than those built-in that would be used later when parsing the actual automounter
> > maps.
> >
> > --kelvin
>
> I am not sure, but it sounds, to me, like you are having the same kind of trouble
> I had when trying to pass a timeout value.
> I had to make the following changes to get that to work on slackware 7.
>
> --- auto.master (sometime)
> +++ auto.master (now)
> # mountpoint map options
> # For details of the format look at autofs(8).
> -/u auto.u --timeout 60
> +/u auto.u ---timeout 60
>
> The extra "-" was needed because some how an extra "-" was needed for rc.autofs to
> pass the correct thing to automount. And then I figured out that for some reason
> the order of the options to automount made a difference in it actually using the
> timeout value... These changes worked for me YMMV.
>
> --- rc.autofs Wed Jan 5 12:19:07 2000
> +++ source_autofs/autofs-3.1.3/samples/rc.autofs Tue Nov 3 16:21:14 1998
> @@ -53,11 +50,11 @@
> map=`echo "/etc/$map" | sed -e 's:^/etc//:/:'`
> options=`echo "$options" | sed -e 's/\(^\|[ \t]\)-/\1/g'`
> if [ -x $map ]; then
> - echo "automount $options $dir program $map $localoptions"
> + echo "automount $dir program $map $options $localoptions"
> elif [ -f $map ]; then
> - echo "automount $options $dir file $map $localoptions"
> + echo "automount $dir file $map $options $localoptions"
> else
> - echo "automount $options $dir `basename $map` $localoptions"
> + echo "automount $dir `basename $map` $options $localoptions"
> fi
> fi
> done
> @@ -77,7 +74,7 @@
> then
> map=`echo "$map" | sed -e 's/^auto_/auto./'`
> options=`echo "$options" | sed -e 's/\(^\|[ \t]\)-/\1/g'`
> - echo "automount $options $dir yp $map $localoptions"
> + echo "automount $dir yp $map $options $localoptions"
> fi
> done
> )
>
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