autofs - Service control for the automounter
If a SysV init script system is being used:
/etc/init.d/autofs start|stop|restart|reload|status
or if the systemd init system is being used:
systemctl start|stop|restart|reload|status autofs.service
autofs controls the operation of the
automount(8) daemon(s)
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. Service control actions can also be manually invoked by the system
administrator to shut down, restart, reload or obtain service status.
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 or
systemctl autofs.service reload will
check the current auto.master map against the current automount managed
mounts. It will terminate those daemons or threads (depending on
autofs
version) whose entries have been removed, re-read the automount maps for
entries that have changed and start new daemons or threads for entries that
have been added.
If an indirect map is modified then the change will become effective
immediately. If an indirect map uses the
browse option, the master map
contains direct mount maps or the
auto.master map is modified then the
autofs service control reload action must be rerun to activate the
changes.
However, if a map entry has offsets and is currently in use the offset mounts
cannot be updated due to potential mount dependencies. In this case the map
entry offsets will not be updated until after the map entry has expired.
/etc/init.d/autofs status or
systemctl status autofs.service will
display the status of,
automount(8), running or not. When using the
systemd init system the status output includes somewhat more information
related to the service status.
systemctl(1) has more functions than the actions mentioned here, see
systemctl(1) for more information.
automount(8),
autofs(5),
autofs.conf(5),
auto.master(5),
autofs_ldap_auth.conf(5),
systemctl(1).
This manual page was written by Christoph Lameter <
[email protected]>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system. Edited by H. Peter Anvin
<
[email protected]> and Ian Kent <
[email protected]>.