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>I totally agree. A daemon is a service program which should be able to be
>started and stopped like any other service program by the system administator.
>Especially under Linux, which is one of most stable operation systems I worked
>with, it would help to design daemons in a coherent service friendly manner.
I agree with the agreement. But I guess I also understand that it
might be difficult... AMD was the singularly most crappy program for
Linux and the only reason we had to reboot our machines (several
months apart, but anyway). You know the procedure; hmm, can't login,
go to machine, see several screens of amd messages on console, try to
kill amd, fail, try to unmount all NFS mounts, fail, try to figure out
which bloody proc holds the mount, fail, getting damn cold in the
server room, getting mad, killing all user processes, killing amd,
killing NFS, bla, bla. Rebooting because the bloody kernel refuses to
forget some silly old mount...
... Sorry about the ramblings, had to get in off my chest. But you get
the picture. I _really_ would like an easier way to shut down the
automounter and flush all mount points. There are reasons you want to
do it and there always will be reasons to do it. Have already had to
go through the shutdown procedure with autofs because of bugs. Felt
ominously like amd.
Another point for the wishlist; since I guess most of the known Unix
universe is using AMD, a script to parse AMD-maps and generate autofs
ones would probably be very helpful, as you can see from this list. I
wrote one myself but it's just a trifle and won't do for serious
distribution.
More whining... after fighting with AMD and trying to figure out where
the hell those amd-upl-xxx came from I didn't get happier when trying
to find autofs, no official web-site, just a ftp archive, already a
frightening number of strange autofs distributions. A NEWS file in the
distribution where there are almost no differences between version
0.3.14 and 3.1.2. No HOWTO or similar document. No explanation as to
how the daemon ties into the kernel, no explanation on which version
of the kernel is needed...
Yeah, I know, a lot of whining. Sorry. On the positive side, autofs
_might_ be less buggy then AMD... ;)
/ronny
