==> 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

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