Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:27:23 -0800 (PST) From: jason@engr.uky.edu To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/8966: yp_mkdb does not accept standard automountd-formated source file. Message-ID: <199812042227.OAA29548@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 8966
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: yp_mkdb does not accept standard automountd-formated source file.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Dec 4 14:30:00 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jason Swank
>Organization:
University of Kentucky
>Release: 2.2.7
>Environment:
FreeBSD blackbird.ecc.engr.uky.edu 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE
#0: Wed Jul 22 08:48:29 GMT 1998
root@builder.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
>Description:
In addition to an amd-style map, I need to also serve an
automountd-style map for some HP-UX and Solaris hosts. However,
I could not get yp_mkdb to create the automountd NIS map correctly--
it returned the error:
yp_mkdb: bad character at start of line: jason
The input file for the map were valid, i.e. there were no odd
characters at the beginning of any lines.
Specifically, I have two text files as sources for the two maps:
"auto.amd" for amd and "auto.home" for automountd. The "auto.home"
format is exactly that found with NIS servers under Linux, HP-UX,
Solaris, Sun-OS, IRIX as well as page 329 of O'Reilly's "Managing NFS
and NIS".
# cat auto.amd
jason host!=blackbird;rfs:=/users1;rhost:=spitfire;type:=nfs;sublink
:=jason;opts:=rw \
host==blackbird;type:=link;fs:=/users1;sublink=jason
# cat auto.home
jason -rw,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 blackbird:/users1/jason
After spending several hours trying (seemingly) everything else, I
reversed the options of the data field to read:
"rsize=1024,wsize=1024,-rw" and now all is well.
Basically, this is more of a very non-standard, non-documented,
poorly-errored annoyance than a serious bug. (According to the
yp_mkdb manpage,any ASCII data can be used as key or data for
db style databases).
>How-To-Repeat:
Include a "-" as the beginning of the data entry for any NIS database.
>Fix:
(possible): Add "BUGS subsection to the yp_mkdb man page which reads:
BUGS
yp_mkdb seems to have a problem coping with some non-alphanumeric
characters as the first character of the data element in the inputfile.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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