[SUMMARY] /etc/automaster

Well, here it is.  Thanks to all who responded.  What I did was nothing
more that restarting the autofs service.  That did the trick.

++alan

Original post:

Hey list,

We hit a snag with a recent patch cluster upgrade on our Solaris 8
boxes.  My co-worker did some research and found that several commands
issued with the /xfn directory will hang.  He found some old posts that
recommend removing the entry out of the /etc/auto_master file or
pointing it to -null will fix the problem if we are not using the Sun
Federated Naming System.  Our question is this:
     Is there a service we can restart to re-read the new config, or do
we need to do a full re-boot?

TIA,

Responses:

Alan,

Just type in:

automount

That's it!

Mark

Mark E. Hargrave
UNIX Systems Administrator, ITS Operating Systems Group
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. - Michoud Operations
P.O. Box 29304  New Orleans, LA 70189
Telephone 504-257-1242  Facsimile 504-257-4465
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:46:24AM -0600, Alan Carbutt wrote:
[/etc/auto_master]
>     Is there a service we can restart to re-read the new config, or do
>we need to do a full re-boot?

You can either stop & restart the automounter using /etc/rc2.d/S74autofs
or
you can run the automount command.

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sh /etc/rc2.d/S74autofs stop
sh /etc/rc2.d/S74autofs start

-B
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You can try automount -v and see if that takes care of it.  The next
thing to try is /etc/init.d/autofs stop and then /etc/init.d/autofs
start. If that doesn't take, then you'll need to reboot.

Tom McMurtrey
ConocoPhillips
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/etc/init.d/autofs stop
/etc/init.d/autofs start
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/etc/init.d/autofs

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not sure if anyone already replied to this, but i ran into the same
thing
earlier on one of my machines.  doing a "umount /xfn" took care of it
for me
(assuming you are not running the auto fs daemon).  hope that helps...

- David
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Alan Carbutt
Systems Administrator/Programmer
Adams State College
719-587-7741
arcarbut@adams.edu

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