Re: autofs v4: speak now or shutdown or not

[Peter Funk]

H. Peter Anvin schrieb:
> > 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?

No, that doesn't make sense.  'SIGTERM' should terminate automount;
that is what a termination signal is supposed to do.  

May be that people want to change the behaviour of their
/etc/rc.d/autofs resp.  (here on SuSE Linux) their /sbin/init.d/autofs
shell-script used to start/restart/stop the autofs ssub system?  
The version distributed with SuSE contains two special functions 
for the SuSE and Debian distributions.  What about Red Hat, Caldera 
and others?

Regards from germany, Peter
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