Sorry for the typo in the previous post. This is what I meant below.
Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings!
>
> "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Scott McDermott wrote:
> > >
> > > H. Peter Anvin on Wed 8/03 00:57 -0800:
> > > > > This `head' stuff is really silly ! One step up from the now boring
> > > > > `useless use of cat'.
> > > >
> > > > Someone seems to believe the "head" allows the command to return
> > > > earlier.
> > >
> > > That was me. Is this an erroneous assumption? I presented it to speed
> > > up the command on a large map.
> > >
> > > [mcdermot@diethylamide /tmp]$ time head ~/mail/mbox | wc -l
> > > 0.01 user 0.00 system 0:00.01 elapsed 83% CPU
> > > 10
> > > [mcdermot@diethylamide /tmp]$ time wc -l ~/mail/mbox
> > > 271567 /home/mcdermot/mail/mbox
> > > 0.17 user 0.20 system 0:03.38 elapsed 10% CPU
> > >
> > > (pretty formatted)
> > >
> >
> > Seems to work, although I think I prefer ypmatch -m.
> >
> > -hpa
>
> OK, that's good enough for me! Please see revised patch below. If
> there are no more objections, then I will submit this version for
> Debian potato.
>
--- autofs-3.1.4.orig/samples/rc.autofs.in
+++ autofs-3.1.4/samples/rc.autofs.in
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@
#
# Check for YellowPage maps to be loaded
#
-if [ -e /usr/bin/ypcat ] && [ `ypcat -k auto.master 2>/dev/null | wc -l` -gt 0 ]
+if [ -e /usr/bin/ypcat ] && [ -e /usr/bin/ypwhich ] && \
+ ypwhich -m auto.master >/dev/null 2>&1
then
ypcat -k auto.master | (
while read dir map options
@@ -106,7 +107,10 @@
if [ ! -z "$dir" -a ! -z "$map" \
-a x`echo "$map" | cut -c1` != 'x-' ]
then
- map=`echo "$map" | sed -e 's/^auto_/auto./'`
+ if echo $map | grep _ >/dev/null && \
+ ! ypwhich -m $map >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+ map=`echo "$map" | sed -e 's/_/./g'`
+ fi
if echo $options | grep -- '-t' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
mountoptions="--timeout $(echo $options | \
sed 's/^.*-t\(imeout\)*[ \t]*\([0-9][0-9]*\).*$/\2/g')"
