Re: autofs v4: speak now or shutdown or not

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya peter...

> > > No, that doesn't make sense.  'SIGTERM' should terminate automount;
> > > that is what a termination signal is supposed to do.  
> > 
> > yes.... sigterm should kill the process...
> > 
> > am looking for another sig to send it to try to kill but don't if it
> > is used...since autofs does not restart if it did not "cleanly die"
> > 
> 
> Okay, so right now we have:
> 
>       SIGKILL         - Die instantly (leaves a mess)
>       SIGTERM         - Try to shut down cleanly but die no matter what
>       SIGUSR2         - Try to shut down cleanly but continue if not possible
>       SIGUSR1         - Prune as many mounts as possible, but don't
>                         shut down

soudns good to me.... just means that we're NOT supposed to use "autofs stop"
as it will/might create problems with autofs starting backup if it left behind
mounted dirs...
        -
        - I'll play with "autofs reload" more and see what happens
        - since "reload" already uses USR2

the restart problems occurs when I add new machines and directories to import...
and need to reload the updated auto.misc files...no problem otherwise...
        - a small price to pay for "user defined changes" on a small network...

have fun
alvin