NAME
/etc/init.d/autofs - Control Script for automounter
SYNOPSIS
/etc/init.d/autofs
start|stop|reload|status
DESCRIPTION
autofs
control the operation of the
automount(8)
daemons running on the Linux system. Usually
autofs
is invoked at system boot time with the
start
parameter and at shutdown time with the
stop
parameter. The
autofs
script can also manually be invoked by the system administrator to shut
down, restart or reload the automounters.
OPERATION
autofs
will consult a configuration file
/etc/auto.master
(see
auto.master(5))
to find mount points on the system. For each of those mount points a
automount(8)
process is started with the appropriate parameters. You can check the
active mount points for the automounter with the
/etc/init.d/autofs status
command. If the
auto.master
configuration file contains a line of the form
+map
[options]
then the script will check for an NIS map with the same name. If such a
map exists then that map will be processed in the same way as the
auto.master map, with any optional arguments.
/etc/init.d/autofs reload
will check the current auto.master map against running daemons. It will kill
those daemons whose entries have changed and then start daemons for new or
changed entries.
If a map is modified then the change will become effective immediately. If
the
auto.master
map is modified then the
autofs
script must be rerun to activate the changes.
/etc/init.d/autofs status
will display the current configuration and a list of currently running
automount daemons.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christoph Lameter <chris@waterf.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Edited by H. Peter Anvin
<hpa@transmeta.com>.
