RHBA-2010:0791 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated autofs5 package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Problem Description: The autofs utility controls the operation of the automount
daemon, which automatically mounts, and then unmounts file systems after a
period of inactivity.

This updated package fixes the following bug:

• Previously, Network Information System (NIS) maps failed to work if maps

included both file and NIS maps. This was due to problems related to negative
caching of non-existent map keys. With this update, the negative cache is
corrected and NIS maps work as expected.

All users of the autofs daemon are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which resolves this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 642612 - If maps include both file and nis maps, included nis maps which worked on RHEL 5.3 no longer work on RHEL 5.4

CVEs

(none)

References

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