On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately there are other user processes using the mounts so I
> > can't really just kill them all off to restart automount. It would be
> > nice if automount could keep some table like mtab of mounts that were
> > setup by it and then when it is restarted it takes control of them
> > again.
> >
> > I imagine the official line on this is that you don't need to restart
> > an automount process because you can just change the map file and it
> > should take effect immediately. The "autofs reload|restart" only kills
> > or starts mounts which have changed in the auto.master file.
> >
> > I guess I'll either have to kill those processes or permanently mount
> > the directories until the next reboot!
> >
>
> 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.
Fair enough. Now I know the implications of stopping automount I just
won't do it again. Easy really isn't it ;-) How about a note in the
man pages explaining this?
BTW, thanks for automount. I much prefer it to amd.
Simon
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