NFS Services Administrator's Guide (B.11.31.02) January 2008

/sbin/init.d/autofs stop

2. In the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file, set the value of AUTOFS variable to 0, as follows:

AUTOFS=0

IMPORTANT: Do not disable AutoFS by terminating the automountd daemon with the kill

command. It does not unmount AutoFS mount-points before it terminates. Use the autofs

stop command instead.

Restarting AutoFS

AutoFS rarely needs to be restarted. In case you do need to restart it, follow these steps:

1. To find a list of all the automounted directories on the client, run the following scripts:

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

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

done

2. To determine whether each automounted directory returned by the grep command is

currently in use, enter the following command:

/usr/sbin/fuser -cu local_mount_point

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

mounted directory.

3. Warn any users to exit the directory, and terminate any processes that are using the directory,

or wait until the processes terminate. To terminate all the processes that are using the

mounted directory, enter the following command:

/usr/sbin/fuser -ck local_mount_point

4. To stop AutoFS, enter the following command:

/sbin/init.d/autofs stop

IMPORTANT: Do not stop the automountd daemon with the kill command. It does not

unmount AutoFS mount-points before it terminates. Use the autofs stop command

instead.

5. To ensure that AutoFS is no longer active, enter the ps command:

/usr/bin/ps -ef | grep automount

If the ps command indicates that AutoFS is still active, ensure that all users have exited the

automounted directories and then try again. Do not restart AutoFS until all the automount

processes are terminated.

6. To start AutoFS, enter the following command:

/sbin/init.d/autofs start

Troubleshooting AutoFS

This section describes the tools and procedures for troubleshooting AutoFS.

AutoFS Logging

AutoFS logs messages through /usr/sbin/syslogd. By default, syslogd writes messages

to the file /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log. For more information on the syslog daemon,

see syslogd(1M).

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