On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:21 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings: > > My NIS auto.net has an entry that looks similar to: > > my_dir -fstype=fuse,reconnect,allow_other,uid=6000,gid=6000,umask=0002 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/my_dir > > It works fine with CentOS 4 x86, x86_64 and ia64 distributions using autofs4. > I > installed CentOS 5 x86_64 > which uses autofs5 and this NIS mount failed. > > Note: In order to allow NIS to properly provide the auto.net entry, I needed > to > make a minor change to > the /var/yp/Makefile to allow '#' in the NIS database. > > The 'automount -v -d' reports in /var/messages something like: > > Jun 8 19:02:23 c1 automount[27076]: attempting to mount entry /net/my_dir > Jun 8 19:02:24 c1 automount[27076]: parse_mount: parse(sun): invalid > location > Jun 8 19:02:24 c1 automount[27076]: failed to mount /net/my_dir > > > Does autofs-5.0.1/modules/parse_sun.c 'validate_location' function need to > allow > the '#' to > get this working again? If it's something simple like this, would it be > possible > to add to > the next release?
The location validation is fairly strict in what it thinks should be a host name. I'll have a look. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
