Greetings!
"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Peter Bunclark wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > >
> > > 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 :(
> > >
Well then isn't this diff something like what you intend? Wouldn't
this make everyone happy?
--- /etc/init.d/autofs Sat May 8 15:54:47 1999
+++ /home/camm/autofs Tue Feb 29 15:22:36 2000
@@ -100,7 +100,13 @@
if [ ! -z "$dir" -a ! -z "$map" \
-a x`echo "$map" | cut -c1` != 'x-' ]
then
- map=`echo "$map" | sed -e 's/^auto_/auto./'`
+#
+# First check for map as provided, then try _ -> . allowed by Sun
+# in case of failure
+#
+ if [ `ypcat -k $map 2>/dev/null | wc -l` -eq 0 ] ; then
+ map=`echo "$map" | sed -e 's/^auto_/auto./'`
+ fi
# special: treat -t or --timeout (or any reasonable derivative)
# specially, since it can't be made a normal mount option.
mountoptions=""
--
Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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