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Subject: Re: [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:28:59PM -0600, Ogden, Aaron A. wrote:
> On those occasions where the autofs daemon gets confused
> (loses track of mountpoints, gets corruption in its internal
> representation of NIS maps, etc.) we could shut down the autofs daemon,
> kill any remaining processes, and restart it from scratch.  In most
> cases restarting the daemon fixes the problem.  It's worth noting that I
> have seen this happen on Solaris 2.6 as well but it is extremely rare.

I do it on HP-UX 10.20 all the time.  Lots of stale NFS handles, or
something just isn't working right?  Stop and restart the automount
daemons (/sbin/init.d/nfs.client), and that usually fixes it.  The one
or two times I made the mistake of trying that on Linux, I had to reboot
the box to get it to work again.