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 _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
