hi ya peter...
yes... if you could...please use some kind of detection schem
where autofs will refuse to shutdown and just flag that /home
is in use.... instead of going down anyway...and not be able
to restart to remount the other dirs that the users now wants
but can't get since autofs won't come back up without killing
all the old processes...
thank you
alvin
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Maybe it is just me, but it always hurts me, if I have to reboot a machines,
> > just because I scewed it up so much that no clean simple kills will help any
> > more.
>
> Note you can certainly stop autofs, but you might have to clean up
> manually before you can restart. The only other option would be for
> autofs to refuse to shut down if any of its filesystems are in use,
> like it does if it gets SIGUSR1 (I think...)
>
> -hpa
>
