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From: Michael Blandford <mlblandf@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Subject: Re: NIS maps loading.
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:24:13 -0700
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To: "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>
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Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:

>Changes in indirect maps such as auto.home
>distributed via NIS are ignored until all daemons are killed and 
>restarted.
>That's of course not always possible or practical (it requires all 
>users logout). This behavior is not present in other *nix such as 
>Solaris or True64, so it can be considered a true bug.
>
>  
>

What version of autofs are you using?  Have you applied the kernel 
patches at kernel.org ( if you aren't using 2.6.10 )

Michael