autofs 3.1.7-21 supports the -D flag; we use it alot.

your test case is broken.  automounter can't run with JUST the -D
flag, it doesn't have enough arguments.  try adding a -D flag to
an already-working coammand line and see what happens.

note that -D arguments aren't correctly passed to child automounter
processes that get created as "submounts", which occur when you have
maps with "-fstype=autofs" in them.  I have a patch in to redhat with
a work-around, and I'm hoping they will find a better fix and publish
an errata.

 -skottie

Andy Elmer wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if there was some way of setting the substitution
> variables in autofs to specific values?  (example.  OSREL=2.4 ).
> 
> From the autofs.5 man page I saw the following regarding variable
> substitution:
> Additional   entries  can  be  defined  with  the  -Dvariable=Value
> option to automount(8).
> 
> However, the "automount" binary which comes with Redhat 7.3 doesn't
> seem to recognize the -D option.
> #  automount -DOSREL=2.4
> /usr/sbin/automount: Ambiguous or unknown options
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, or is there another way of doing this?
> Thanks!
> 
> Andy
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