Download Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.8 Technical Notes

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.8 Technical Notes
T he autofs utility controls the operation of the automount daemon. T he automount daemon automatically
mounts and unmounts file systems.
Bug Fixes
BZ #655685
Previously, autofs submounts incorrectly handled shutdown synchronization and lock
restrictions. As a consequence, automount could be unresponsive when submounts expired.
With this update, the submount shuts down only after the states ST _SHUT DOWN,
ST _SHUT DOWN_PENDING, and ST _SHUT DOWN_FORCE, or when the state changes to
ST _READY.
BZ #692814
Previously, automount did not correctly parse unmatched brackets in map entry server names.
As a consequence, the sanity check for host names in these map entries could fail. Now,
unmatched brackets in server names result in a syntax error being reported and the check no
longer fails.
BZ #70014 2
Previously, the automount logged confusing error messages when syntax errors occurred in
map entry locations. T his update modifies these messages and displays more informative
messages were possible.
BZ #700896
Previously, LDAP servers did not correctly return an opaque cookie to check for additional
results when getting paged results from the server on 64-bit PowerPC and IBM System z
platforms due to slightly different criteria for deciding if there are more results. As a
consequence, the autofs internal functions did not detect when paged result sets were not
supported. T his update modifies the underlying source code so that autofs now correctly
detects whether the paged results are updated.
BZ #725536
Previously, an incorrect check for the presence of additional addresses for a host led to the IP
address being used for mounting instead of the host name. As a consequence the IP address
was displayed instead of the host name when listing system mounts, even when the host had
only a single address. T his update modifies the check so that the IP address is used only if a
host has multiple IP addresses.
BZ #731514 , BZ #732333
Previously, incorrect identification of the map entry source caused a failure during the key
lookup. As a consequence, map lookups for an automount, where a a key was present in a file
map and the same key was also found in an included map, failed if the file map entry was
removed and a lookup was performed before a re-load is issued. T his update modifies the key
lookup code and the lookup works now as expected.
BZ #732332
Previously, automount could become unresponsive when reloading a master map that included
a combination of direct and indirect maps due to incorrect lock ordering. T his update corrects
the logic used to determine if the lookup needs to continue into included maps.
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