On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 09:25 +0800, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote: > > Just read the autofs section in http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer > > Attached is the output captured using script. ~330K > > <<typescript>> > > CC > > _____________________________________________ > From: Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) > Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2007 9:05 AM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: autofs problems with RHEL4 > > > Hi all > > We run 150+ RHEL3 workstations and a handfull of RHEL4 and RHEL5 > boxes. Our automount maps are served from a Sun One Directory Server > v5.1, the main automount map contains 1258 entries. > > On RHEL3 (update 9 fully patched) and RHEL5 (fully patched), autofs > behaves just fine, exactly as we need. > > On RHEL4 autofs behaves very differently. > (kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.9.EL, autofs-4.1.3-199.3). > > Symptoms: > 1) Weirdness with symlinks > ls -ld /scratch /scratch/memconf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Sep 4 11:11 /scratch > -> /nfs/perseus/scratch > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 34 Oct 16 > 05:05 /scratch/memconf -> /nfs/wwwproxy/data/mgmtvol/memconf > > On EL3/5, 'ls -l /scratch/memconf/' will list the contents of the > directory '/scratch/memconf' points at. > On EL4, the first time you do a 'ls -l /scratch/memconf/' will produce > 'ls: /scratch/memconf/: No such file or directory'. Repeating the > command will sometimes give the same error but eventually it will work > and once working will continue to work until the mounts expire and > then you're back to square one. > > 2) Different behavior with BASH, <TAB> completions: > On EL3/5, typing /scra<TAB> will complete to '/scratch/' > On EL4, typing /scra<TAB> will complete to '/scratch ' (note the space > at the end). > > I know this is minor but the users hate this.
Ya .. and rightly so. Does the debug log you sent cover a time when you've tried the tab completion? If so could you give some indication of when (ie. where) in the log we should be seeing something happening. Ian Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
