It's definatly possible, but won't happen until monday at the earliest.
Have you checked to see if there are any other new features of the newer 
version of autofs that might supprise people?

Troy

Steve Traylen wrote:
> Hi 
> 
>  There was a bug fix added to what would be SL3.0.6 that for us becomes
>  a security fix.
> 
>  With autofs-4.1.3-130 as in SL3.0.5  if a DNS look up fails
>  during an nfs automount the kernel panics.
> 
>  This is fixed with autofs-4.1.3-154 which is vendors current release.
> 
>  For us the situation is particularly painful since our auto.mounts
>  are configured equivalent to 
> 
>  # /etc/auto.master
>  /stage /etc/auto.stage
> 
>  # /etc/auto.stage
>  *  &.gridpp.rl.ac.uk:/stage/&
> 
>  So someone who does 
> 
>  $ ls /stage/Non-Existent-HostName
> 
>  does a  lookup of Non-Existent-HostName.stage.rl.ac.uk and causes the 
>  kernel panic.
> 
>  Any chance of the updated autofs getting into 3.0.5. No 
>  worries if not we can easily handle the update here.
> 
>    Steve
>  
> 
> 
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