Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 128997
doesn't resolve hesiod name properly
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:03 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Epiphany/1.2.4 Description of problem: Autofs doesn't seem to use the correct name when mounting directories from hesiod. It uses the hesiod key instead of the directory that hesiod points at. Example: physics% hes netcdftools FILSYS: AFS /afs/eos/service/pams/physics/astro/netcdf w /ncsu/netcdf physics% cd /ncsu/netcdf /ncsu/netcdf: No such file or directory. physics% cd /ncsu/netcdftools physics% pwd /afs/eos.ncsu.edu/service/pams/physics/astro/netcdf Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): autofs-3.1.7-41 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure autofs to work with hesiod 2. have a mount point that has a different name than the hesiod key 3. try to mount it Actual Results: uses hesiod name to mount Expected Results: should use name in hesiod record Additional info: This bug also appears in autofs-4.1.2-2 on both RHEL3 and FC1.
First, sorry it took me so long to get to this. I'm not sure what you expect for behaviour. If you cd to /ncsu/netcdf, how is the automounter supposed to find this directory in hesiod? Why would you configure things in such a way? Note that I've never worked in an environment that used HESIOD, so if there are some common conventions, I am ignorant of them. In other words, you'll have to be thorough in your explanations. ;) Thanks.
Given that there's been no response to this issue, I'm closing it as notabug. I believe the automounter is functioning as designed, here.