On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Oliver Weinmann
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> We are widely using SLES9 in our environment. I noticed that the autofs that
> comes with sles9 is not capable of treating the +auto.map in the autofs
> files. We were asking novell support to fix this and after a really long
> time (5 months) they came back to us saying that this is not possible to
> implement without a service pack. It is very unlikely to be released for
> SLES9 since it is too old. I'm not so much into autofs, but I just can't
> believe this. I downloaded the autofs5 sources and compiled them fine. I
> just can't run them since the kernel 2.6.5.7-322 doesn't seem to support
> autofs5. Now I wonder If I can get an up to date autofs4 package running
> under SLES9. The patch that seems to fix this is called:
>
> autofs-4.1.3-included-maps.patch
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Hello Oliver,

AutoFS 5 won't work on SLES 9 because it requires Kernel changes that
were not back ported to 2.6.5. The first version of SLES to support AutoFS 5
is SLES 10-SP2.

If you really can't upgrade to SLES 10-SP3 or SLES 11-SP1, your best
bet is to get autofs-4.1.4 source RPM from SLES 10-SP3 and rebuild it on
SLES 9. The problem you reported is most likely already fixed on that version.

Hope it helps,
Leonardo

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