Brian Kosick wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry for the top post but I wanted to put the solution first... > It turns out that I need to lay off the crack pipe a little bit. As > soon as I added --ghost to the correct place everything started working > fine. This was a little frustrating as everything that I found on the > Net seemed to indicate that the --ghost option goes in the wrong place. > > Example: I WAS trying combinations of this, which doesn't work. > > dn: cn=internal,ou=auto.software,dc=corp,dc=example,dc=com > cn: internal > objectClass: automount > automountInformation: -soft,intr,nodev,tcp,ro nfs.example.com:/var/qa > --ghost > > It works just fine when you add it here: > > dn: cn=/software,ou=auto.master,dc=corp,dc=example,dc=com > objectClass: automount > cn: /software > automountInformation: > ldap:qapxe.qa.mxlogic.com:ou=auto.software,dc=corp,dc=example,dc=com > --ghost > > I apologize for wasting everyones time, Apologize!? Heck, thanks for tracking this down! Do you know if this works without the ldap syntax in automountInformation? E.g. can you use just: automountInformation: auto.software --ghost cheers rob > Brian > > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 17:53 -0700, Brian Kosick wrote: >> Hrrrm thanks, >> >> I believe that it is an unresolved bug, based on the info regarding this >> issue that I've already found via google.... >> >> It looks like the autofs author back in 2006 came _real close_ to >> looking into this, but a workaround seemed to have put this issue back >> into the deep dark corners of his mind. In fact he probably has dreams >> that he forgot about something to this day because of it. >> >> I'm joining the list to see if I can't get anyone to look into this.... >> >> Brian >> >> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 17:27 -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: >>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Brian Kosick wrote: >>> >>>> I should clarify... My original looked like this: >>>> >>>> dn: cn=internal,ou=auto.software,dc=corp,dc=mxlogic,dc=com >>>> cn: internal >>>> objectClass: automount >>>> automountInformation: -soft,intr,nodev,tcp,ro >>>> itchy.corp.mxlogic.com:/var/qa >>>> >>>> Which worked but I want to use the --ghost option so I tried.... >>>> >>>> dn: cn=internal,ou=auto.software,dc=corp,dc=mxlogic,dc=com >>>> cn: internal >>>> objectClass: automount >>>> automountInformation: -soft,intr,nodev,tcp,ro >>>> itchy.corp.mxlogic.com:/var/qa --ghost >>>> >>>> Which broke it. >>>> Brian >>> As far as I know this is an unresolved bug in autofs's LDAP support. >>> >>> There may be workarounds depending on which OS/distribution you're on. >>> >>> -- >>> Fedora-directory-users mailing list >>> Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users >> -- >> Fedora-directory-users mailing list >> Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
