NAME¶
/etc/init.d/autofs - Control Script for automounter
SYNOPSIS¶
/etc/init.d/autofs start|stop|restart|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)) 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/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 status of,
automount(8), running or not.
SEE ALSO¶
automount(8),
autofs(5),
auto.master(5).
autofs_ldap_auth.conf(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>.