NFS Services Administrator's Guide (B.11.31.03) August 2008

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
script:
for FS in $(grep autofs /etc/mnttab | awk ‘{print $2}’)
do
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 To ensure that AutoFS is no longer active, enter the ps command: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
Restarting AutoFS 103