diff --git a/autofs.spec b/autofs.spec
index 693e1cc..576a777 100644
--- a/autofs.spec
+++ b/autofs.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Summary: A tool for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems.
 Name: autofs
 %define version 5.0.1
-%define release 0.rc2.16
+%define release 0.rc2.18
 Version: %{version}
 Release: %{release}
 Epoch: 1
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Patch19: autofs-5.0.1-rc2-close-on-exec.patch
 Patch20: autofs-5.0.1-rc2-numeric-ldap-host-name.patch
 Patch21: autofs-5.0.1-rc2-get_query_dn-subtree-2.patch
 Patch22: autofs-5.0.1-rc2-ldap-allow-extra-attrs.patch
+Patch23: autofs-5.0.1-rc2-dont-create-remote-dirs.patch
 Buildroot: /var/tmp/autofs-tmp
 BuildRequires: autoconf, hesiod-devel, openldap-devel, bison, flex, libxml2-devel, cyrus-sasl-devel, openssl-devel
 Prereq: chkconfig
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ echo %{version}-%{release} > .version
 %patch20 -p1
 %patch21 -p1
 %patch22 -p1
+%patch23 -p1
 
 %build
 #CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=%{_libdir}
@@ -152,6 +154,9 @@ exit 0
 %{_libdir}/autofs/*
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Oct 25 2006 Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com> - 5.0.1-0.rc2.18
+- deal with changed semantics of mkdir in recent kernels.
+
 * Fri Oct 20 2006 Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com> - 5.0.1-0.rc2.16
 - fix get_query_dn not looking in subtree for LDAP search (missed
   econd occurance).