On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 11:58 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Sun, 2015-05-31 at 20:05 +0200, Frank Thommen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > are wildcards within multi-mount maps supposed to work? > > Good question. > > > > > I have the following entry in our maps: > > > > /etc/auto.master (local): > > /mymount yp:mymap --ghost > > > > > > Indirect NIS map for /mymount: > > $ ypmatch webapps mymap > > /* -timeo=30 server:/local/exports/& > > Yeah, that can't work. > > The wildcard must be a single character at the start of the key, no > other characters can be used. > > So, no that can't be used in multi-mount map entries. > > Keep in mind that for multi-mount map entries to work the offset paths > must be known when the containing mount is performed so adding > functionality like this isn't actually doable. > > The substitution is based on replacing the whole key, autofs can't take > part of a key and use it for substitution either. > > What's more doing so would introduce the the need to handle multiple > occurrences of the wildcard with matching of where to substitute each > one and that isn't covered by the Sun map format AFAIK. > > If this type of extended key pattern matching is really needed you could > have a look at the amd map format. I haven't implemented the regex key > matching functionality of am-utils in autofs but the variable length key > matching combined with wildcard entries might be sufficient. That probably should read "multiple component key matching" rather than "variable length key matching". > > Note that I also haven't implemented the am-utils multi-mount like map > type either and the way they are specified in amd map format maps > doesn't lend itself to this sort of wildcard handling either. > > > $ > > > > > > On the NIS server the map looks like this: > > webapps \ > > /* -timeo=30 server:/local/exports/& The other approach that might be useful is using submounts (Sun map format) like: webapps -fstype=autofs autofs.wild where autofs.wild could contain: other-offset-submount -fstype=autofs autofs.other-offsets * -timeo=30 server:/local/exports/& and the map autofs.other-offsets is a subdirectory of lower level mounts. Obviously you would need one of these for each sub directory of mounts. > > > > > > However on the client it looks like: > > > > $ ls /mymount/webapps > > * > > $ ls /mymount/webapps/user > > ls: /mymount/webapps/user: No such file or directory > > $ > > > > (/local/exports/user /is/ exported to this client from server) > > > > This is on CentOS 5 with autofs 5.0.1. > > > > Should that work or do I have to solve this mount config in an other way? > > > > Frank > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
