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Description of problem:
I discovered that the option --ghost is being ignored by 
/etc/init.d/autofs on Fedora Core 3. 

When I examined what happend in /etc/init.d/autofs I found what I
guess is a logical error that probably affects the following options:
ghost, verbose and debug.

In /etc/init.d/autofs we find the following if-statement:

# Check for the ghost option
                if echo "$DAEMONOPTIONS $options" | grep -qE --
'\B-(g\b|-ghost\b)' ;
                then
                    startupoptions="$startupoptions --ghost"
                fi

This if-statement will on Fedore Core 3 not find the options -g or
--ghost, and therefore will never add the option --ghost to
$startupoptions, which causes the options to be ignored.

This bug can be reproduced by others by adding the --ghost option in
the file /etc/sysconfig/autofs, and check the automounting of nis-maps
with the command:
ps -ef | grep auto
You will notice that --ghost is not being used in the startup-command
for the automounters.

The bug itself is that the grep command can not find --ghost on Fedora
core 3 . As a proof run the following command:

[tord@itse6843]~% if echo "--ghost --timeout=60" | grep -qE --
'\B-(g\b|-ghost\b)' ;then echo "Found --ghost"; fi
[tord@itse6843]~%

A collegue of mine suggested to replace the grep-command with grep -w
-qE -- '(-g|--ghost)' ,which seems to work fine. 

[tord@itse6843]~% if echo "--ghost --timeout=60" |  grep -w -qE --
'(-g|--ghost)' ;then echo "Found --ghost"; fi
Found --ghost
[tord@itse6843]~%

The same grep-command is also used to test for the verbose and debug
options, and should probably be replaced too.

When I replaced the grep-command the --ghost option worked fine :) A
new package from Fedora with this change would greatly improve the
user friendlyness on my users many workstations. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
autofs-4.1.3-28

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a NIS-map which the workstations are supposed to automount
2. On a workstation, in the file /etc/sysconfig/autofs insert --ghost
into the variable DAEMONOPTIONS like this: DAEMONOPTIONS="--ghost
--timeout=60"
3. Reboot the workstation
4. Run the command: ps -ef | grep auto
    

Actual Results:  You will find that the automount process for the map
does not contain --ghost. You wil see something like: 
/usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /home yp auto.home

Expected Results:  The automount process should contain --ghost like
this: /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 --ghost /home yp auto.home

Additional info:

It seems like /etc/init.d/autofs is written to do different thing
depending on if the system it is running on is "Redhat-ish" og Debian.

Maybe the grep-command is ok on Debian, even though it does not work
on Fedora Core 3.