On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 07:12 +0900, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote: > Hi all > > We have a mix of Linux and Solaris workstations and servers. In Solaris > land, an 'automount -v' is run nightly to pickup any changes to the > automount maps. Is this required with the autofs distributed by RedHat? > Does autofs do any checking to see if the map has changed? We're running > RedHat EL 3, 4 and 5, (mostly) fully patched.
Basically, yes and no! There are some differences between version 4 and version 5 but below is generally the case. For indirect maps it should see changes but a HUP signal can be used to force an update. For direct maps you need to send a HUP signal to the daemon. A "service autofs reload" will do this. But be aware that RHEL 5.1 has a bug that can cause it to wipe out the map under some circumstances. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
