Re: Automounter does not start except at bootup

[Brad M. Garcia]

On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Frithjof Anders wrote:
> 
> Thus spoke H. Peter Anvin on 22-Feb-99 :
> > 
> > Basically, in autofs v3 there is no way of taking control over an
> > abandoned automount, and I haven't been planning on that kind of
> > support for autofs v4 either; it is really hard to do and I see very
> > little benefit to it.
> 
> I disagree that this feature has "little benefit". Imagine, you want to
> move a user from one partition to another. That happens sometimes if you
> are a sysadmin. Changing NIS maps will not solve the problem.
> Yep, then you end up rebooting the machines or tell the user, he/she can only
> log onto machines, which have been not used by him/her.

I have to agree with Frithjof.  I have had other reasons for restarting
autofs as well (upgrading autofs for one), and it is a pain to make sure
that nobody on the machine is currently using an autofs-controlled
directory.

I understand if you don't wish to code it yourself for v4, but I would
like to convince you that such a feature would be very beneficial.

Brad Garcia
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