On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, ergatz wrote:

> I have a Solaris 2.6 NIS server and have recently added some Redhat Linux 
> hosts to it.
> 
> I have:
> 
>      1 RH 7.3 machine
>      2 RH 3.0 update 0
>      1 RH 3.0 update 3
>      2 RH 4.0 machines
> 
> I have looked at this problem a lot, and the difference I see is that 7.3 and 
> 3.0U0 use autofs 3.
> The 4.0 and 3.0U3 machines use autofs 4
> 
> My problem is:  When I moved some users' home directories to a different 
> partition, the RH machines using autofs 4 had to be rebooted to pick up the 
> changes.  The solaris hosts and the 7.3 and 3.0U0 (running autofs 3) picked 
> up the changed locations magically like they are supposed to.  The machines 
> using autofs 4 had to be rebooted in order to pick up the changes.  I tried 
> everything I could think of to avoid reboot, because multiple users are on 
> the the system at all times.
> 
> I stopped and restarted autofs and ypbind--SEVERAL times.  Nothing worked.

Did you try "service autofs reload".

or 

/etc/init.d/autofs reload

?

> 
> So, who know the differences between autofs 3 and 4, and what can I do to 
> hosts running autofs 4 to get them to pick up the NIS changes without having 
> to reboot?
> 
> dorothy

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