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- From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: automounter vs auto.master
- Message-ID: <rhoward.715453276@matd>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 17:01:16 GMT
- References: <1811ojINNe3c@cs.utexas.edu>
- Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU
- Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Lines: 32
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- fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes:
-
- >How does one get the automounter to notice that you have changed
- >auto.master?
-
- >As best I can tell, you have to actually kill and restart the
- >automounter (yuck). Is this really true? If so, it orphans any
- >existing auto-mounted file systems, so they are not unmounted until
- >the next reboot. So you may as well reboot the machine anyway.
- >Please tell me it ain't so.
-
- No....
-
- It's not that bad. From the automount man page:
-
- Entries in both direct and indirect maps can be modified at
- any time. The new information will be used when automount
- next uses the map entry to do a mount. automount does not
- cache map entries.
-
- See, automount does not cache map entries....
-
- Robert
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