Thus spoke Simon Liddington on 19-Feb-99 :
> Hi,
>
> I am using the autofs-3.1.1-4.i386.rpm package on redhat 5.2.
>
> If I restart the automounter with these commands it stops but doesn't
> restart again.
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
>
> If I try to start it by hand and type
>
> /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 60 /net file /etc/auto.net
>
> then it returns immediately and does nothing.
>
> It seems to only start if started at boot up.
type
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs status
it gives you, which point moints a configured and with are active e.g
something like:
Configured Mount Points:
------------------------
automount /home yp auto.home
automount /imports yp auto.imports
Active Mount Points:
--------------------
automount /home yp auto.home
automount /imports yp auto.imports
If you stop the automounter with the script and the mount points are still in
use, the automounter process will be killed and if you do give a started
afterwards it will not be started again on the mount points which are still in
use :) You have to kill all
processes, which use the automounter mount point, kill eventuall all still
running automount processes. Then you can start new.
This is a weekness of the autofs implementation. I am not an expert, just a
user of autofs, but I guess it has to do with the fact, that part of the autofs
runs in the kernel. The amd automounter was nicer with that respect: you
could kill and restart it and it worked fine.
Frithjof
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Frithjof Anders
Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik
Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
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