Automount trouble?

[Robert Thurlow]

In <2796 at brchh104.bnr.ca> phil at arco.com writes:
>The only problems I have, are that the automounter cannot be refreshed.
>The machine needs to be rebooted when a change is made to auto.direct.

Direct maps are like that, unfortunately; a SIGHUP won't fix them.
But rebooting is extreme; a simple kill of the automounter with
SIGTERM* and a restart should do.

* Don't use other signals!  Only this signal will have the automounter
do a clean exit without leaving dead mount points in place.

Rob T
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