Enhanced AutoFS Administrator's Guide

Troubleshooting AutoFS
AutoFS Logging
Chapter 466
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.
6. Add -v to the AUTOMOUNTD_OPTIONS variable in the
/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file, as shown in the following
example:
AUTOMOUNTD_OPTIONS = “-v”
This change enables AutoFS logging.
7. To start AutoFS, issue the following command:
/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start
Stopping AutoFS Logging
To stop AutoFS logging, kill AutoFS and restart it (as described in the
preceding section) by removing “-v” option from the
AUTOMOUNTD_OPTIONS variable.