/etc/init.d/autofs - Control Script for automounter
SYNOPSIS
/etc/init.d/autofs start|stop|reload
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. After the auto.master
configuration file is processed the autofs 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. The NIS map will be processed last.
/etc/init.d/autofs reload will check the current auto.mas
ter map against running daemons. It will kill those dae
mons 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 config
uration and a list of currently running automount daemons.
SEE ALSO
automount(8), autofs(5), auto.master(5).
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>.
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