autofs

AUTOFS(8)							    AUTOFS(8)



NAME
       /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs - Control Script for automounter

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/rc.d/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/rc.d/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/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 immedi-
       ately. 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 current configuration
       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@trans-
       meta.com>.



				  9 Sep 1997			    AUTOFS(8)