>> Sorry I must be missing something. >> You say autofs is now treating the script as a file since it is not >> executable but it is executable. >> I don't quite understand the "if (st.st_mode & __S_IEXEC)" part of the >> code above. >> > > All I'm saying is that, for whatever reason, autofs is treating your > program map as a file map. Why I don't know. > > The check (st.st_mode & __S_IEXEC) checks if the mode returned by the > stat(2) of the path in ap->argv[0] is executable by the owner of the file. > > Ian > > Can you please then just explain what "if (st.st_mode & __S_IEXEC)" is testing for? -- Smartmon System Monitoring www.smartmon.com.au