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))
by default to find mount points on the system. For each of those mount points
automount(8)
will mount and start a thread, with the appropriate parameters, to
manage the mount point.
/etc/rc.d/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/rc.d/init.d/autofs status
will display the status of,
automount(8)
,running or not.
