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...
> >
>
> Sure; currently that's what autofs uses if you send it SIGUSR1; would
> it make sense if I made it behave that way for SIGTERM as well?
Am not 100% sure...but doesn't SIGTERM kill the process ??
All I'm wondering is autofs flags that it cannot umount a used mount point
and merrily continues it's way out....and cannot get autofs restarted...
- so am, wondering, can we give it an option to force it to continue
and shutdown like it does now, knowing that it ( autofs) won't come back up
.. the other option is to NOT shutdown if it finds "used mountpoints"
- I have this problem with /usr/local and don't really want to
shutdown the machine... and similarly if /var/spool/mail was
unmounted and autofs shutdowns when no one was reading mail...
and we're stuck with whatever used mountpoints we have...
no /var/spool/mail... which is not critical .. just annoying..
- if I play with /home....than all users are kicked off anyway
and the machine rebooted to test the changes...
thanx
alvin
