==> Regarding Re: [autofs] NIS maps loading.; "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
f.lovergine> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:37:33AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: >> ==> Regarding [autofs] NIS maps loading.; "Francesco P. Lovergine" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds: >> frankie> Changes in indirect maps such as auto.home distributed via NIS are frankie> ignored until all daemons are killed and restarted. That's of frankie> course not always possible or practical (it requires all users frankie> logout). This behavior is not present in other *nix such as frankie> Solaris or True64, so it can be considered a true bug. >> This is a known issue, and there are patches to address it. Depending >> on what kernel you are running, you may also have to patch that as well. >> >> Unfortunately, I can't find the map update patch in the usual place. >> You can get it from the srpms here: >> >> http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer/ >> >> Grab the latest srpm, and extract these two patches: >> >> autofs-4.1.3-ian-map-expiry-1.patch >> autofs-4.1.3-ian-map-expiry-multimount-fix.patch >> >> The kernel patch you want is also listed on the website above. You >> could also just wait for 4.1.4 (or the beta version thereof). f.lovergine> Uhm, probably we missed that in current debian. Isn't it the f.lovergine> same of FC3? The fc3 tree I'm looking at has this change. If it isn't out there right now, it will be available in the next update (which I think is coming soon). FWIW, RHEL 4 also has this change. -Jeff _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
