Re: How do I restart autofs?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Luke Diamand wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Yesterday I stopped and restarted autofs (yes, I know this was silly).
> Now I find that automount refuses to start up on /home because (of
> course) /home is already mounted (there are about a dozen users logged
> in). But new users cannot log in because there is no automounter
> running.
> 
> What do I do, short of booting all the users off?
> 

That's exactly what you need to do.  Don't do this!

        -hpa