Scott McDermott wrote:
>
> H. Peter Anvin on Mon 28/02 20:45 +0100:
> > > Greetings! Regarding the following line from the autofs init
> > > script:
> > >
> > > map=`echo "$map" | sed -e 's/^auto_/auto./'` ,
> > >
> > > is this necesary? We have a Debian bug from a user apparently
> > > wanting to use maps like auto_home.
> >
> > Unfortunately it's required due to Yet Another Sun Piece of Idiocy.
>
> Can you elaborate? I have to remove this line from the autofs script on
> all of our RHL boxes before installing them. Sometimes I forget, and no
> one gets their homes automounted. The servers with the NIS maps are
> Sun. So in this case I would say that you are breaking Sun mounts
> instead of fixing them.
>
Because Sun specs that an underscore "may" be interpreted as a dot when
relating to the auto_master map (apparently implying both should be
tested.)
The Sun auto_master file is so broken. I wish it didn't exist :(
-hpa
