Enhanced AutoFS Administrator's Guide

Installing Enhanced AutoFS

Restarting Enhanced AutoFS

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Restarting Enhanced AutoFS

You rarely need to restart Enhanced AutoFS. If there is a need to restart

Enhanced AutoFS, use the following procedure:

1. To ﬁnd a list of all the automounted directories on the client, issue

the following script:

for FS in $(grep autofs /etc/mnttab | awk ‘{print $2}’)

grep ‘nfs’ /etc/mnttab | awk ‘{print $2}’ | grep ^${FS}

done

2. For every automounted directory listed by the grep command, issue

the following command to determine whether the directory is

currently in use:

/usr/sbin/fuser -cu

local_mount_point

This command lists the process IDs and user names of all the users

using the mounted directory.

3. Warn any user to cd out of the directory, and kill any process that is

using the directory, or wait until the processes terminate. You can

issue the following command to kill all the processes using the

mounted directory:

/usr/sbin/fuser -ck

local_mount_point

4. To kill Enhanced AutoFS, issue the following command:

/sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop

WARNING Do not kill the automountd daemon with the kill command

because it does not die gracefully. Moreover, it does not

unmount AutoFS mount points before it dies. Use the

nfs.client stop script to make sure automountd dies cleanly.

5. To ensure that Enhanced AutoFS is no longer active, issue the ps

command as follows:

/usr/bin/ps -ef | grep automount