On 16/01/18 01:32, Frank Thommen wrote: > Dear all, > > in the auto.master manpage (CentOS 7.3.1611, autofs-5.0.7-56) it says: > > --------- > [...] > options > Any remaining command line arguments without leading dashes (-) are taken as options (-o) to mount. Arguments with leading dashes are considered options for the maps and are passed to automount (8). > > The sun format supports the following options: > > [...] > --------- > > However a line like > > /home /etc/auto.home browse vers=4.0 > > or > > /home /etc/auto.home browse,vers=4.0 > > > results in the following error messages when running autofs with debugging enabled: > > [...] > Jan 15 17:46:47 tbi-cn010 automount[26585]: syntax error while parsing map. > Jan 15 17:46:47 tbi-cn010 automount[26585]: syntax error in map near [ bogus option ] > [...] The master map parser would reject the . character in the options. See bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486035. > > > Instead the option seems to have to be added to the indirect map /etc/auto.home > > * -vers=4.0 server:/exports/home/& > > > Do I misunderstand the documentation or is it wrong? > > Additionally I'm missing the manpage containing the format description of the indirect maps. AFAIR this used to be part of the "autofs" or "automount" manpage. I think that has always been in auto.master(5). I might be wrong in that it changed at some point but I don't think so. Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in
