NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering AutoFS
Restarting AutoFS
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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}’)
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 at the HP-UX
command prompt:
/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 To ensure that AutoFS is no longer active, enter the ps command at
the HP-UX command prompt:
/usr/bin/ps -ef | grep automount