==> Regarding Re: [autofs] auto.net gets a key with a path under SLES9.; Ian 
Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:

raven> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Hans Deragon wrote: Thanks for reporting this
raven> Hans.

>> Greetings.
>> 
>> 
>> I compiled autofs 4.1.4 for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES9). I
>> did found a little problem with auto.net.  The original code has:
>> 
>> key=$1
>> 
>> However, under SLES9, in my network environment, $key can be of the form
>> "server/something[/otherthing]*", which is wrong.  $key should only be a
>> server name.  I fixed the problem with:
>> 
>> key=`echo $1 | perl -wp -e 's%^(\w+)(\/?.+)*$%$1%;'`
>> 
>> My fix removes any path after the server name.

raven> Interesting. I'm not sure why that's happening either.

>> Exactly why automount passes a server name containg some path is unclear
>> for me.  But I wanted to report this here.  If other suffer from this,
>> you might want to consider some fix like mine (maybe using sed which is
>> more standard).

raven> Yep. Sounds like a good idea.

raven> I'll put it on the queue of stuff for 4.1 so I can do it when I
raven> eventually get back to it.

Ian, this sounds more like papering over the real problem to me.  Do you
agree?  I'd like to see some debug output.

-Jeff

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