>>>>> "jmoyer" == Jeff Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 jmoyer> ==> Regarding [autofs] Difference in behaviour between 4.1.3 and 
4.1.4; Max Matveev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
 makc> It seems that 4.1.4 has fixed a problem which 4.1.3 suffers from: if
 makc> a server does not export /, then autofs mount via auto.net would fail
 makc> with the following in the syslog:

 makc> Aug 2 18:11:46 laura automount[6968]: mount(nfs): mkdir_path
 makc> /net/mazur/var failed: Operation not permitted

 makc> This is with SLES9 and autofs4-4.1.3. FC4 with autofs-4.1.4-5 works.
 makc> Whould anybody know which particular change in 4.1.4 is responsible
 makc> for fixing that problem? And is it something which was changed from
 makc> 4.1.3 to 4.1.4 or is it FC's good work?

 jmoyer> I have never seen this issue.  I haven't seen it in the
 jmoyer> upstream autofs package nor in any variant of the Red Hat
 jmoyer> packages with which I work.

Dang! I was hopeing it was a known issue and I wouldn't have to dive
into the code - apparently 4.0.0-pre-something on Mandrake behave
similarly. Maybe it's a kernel module issue, not the user-space
automounter one.

max

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