Dear sirs:
[Please reply directly to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, as I am not on this
mailing list.]
While attempting to build an "executable map" for autofs, I discovered
a small but important bug in the manual page autofs(5). The text (in
autofs version 3.1.7, as distributed with Red Hat Linux 8.0) reads:
Executable Maps
A map can be marked as executable. The init script that parses the
auto.master map will pass this as a program map to the automounter. A
program map will be called as a script with the key as an argument.
The script needs to return one line of a map or no output at all if the
key cannot be matched.
The last sentence is incorrect. In reality, the script needs to
return *one line of a map, but with the first field (the key)
deleted*.
This error wasted a considerable amount of my time, and I hope you can
fix it in the next release.
In addition, I think it would be helpful if you could expand
README.options a bit.
First, it would be helpful to note that the autofs binary uses a
library of modules, so autofs *must be installed* in the location it
was built for before it can be executed.
Second, it would be helpful if there were an option to ./configure
that compiled and linked autofs with symbols and without optimization
(-g -O0), which is what one wants for debugging. I found that I had
to do a considerable mount of hand editing of Makefiles to generate a
binary with a symbol table.
I suspect that both of these tasks are straightforward, but for a
naive user like me, there are no pointers to how to go about them.
Thank you for your consideration,
Dale
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