AUTOFS(8)

NAME
       /etc/init.d/rc.d/autofs - Control Script for automounter

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/init.d/rc.d/autofs start|stop|reload|status

DESCRIPTION
       autofs  control  the operation of the automount(8) daemons
       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. The autofs script  can  also
       manually  be  invoked  by the system administrator to shut
       down, restart or reload the automounters.

OPERATION
       autofs will consult a configuration file  /etc/auto.master
       (see  auto.master(5))  to find mount points on the system.
       For each of those mount points a automount(8)  process  is
       started with the appropriate parameters. You can check the
       active  mount  points  for  the   automounter   with   the
       /etc/init.d/rc.d/autofs    status   command.   After   the
       auto.master configuration file  is  processed  the  autofs
       script  will  check  for an NIS map with the same name. If
       such a map exists then that map will be processed  in  the
       same  way as the auto.master map. The NIS map will be pro-
       cessed last.

       /etc/init.d/rc.d/autofs  reload  will  check  the  current
       auto.master  map  against  running  daemons.  It will kill
       those daemons whose entries have changed  and  then  start
       daemons for new or changed entries.

       If a map is modified then the change will become effective
       immediately. If the auto.master map is modified  then  the
       autofs script must be rerun to activate the changes.

       /etc/init.d/rc.d/autofs  status  will  display the current
       configuration and a list of  currently  running  automount
       daemons.

SEE ALSO
       automount(8) autofs(5) auto.master(5). 

AUTHOR
       This   manual   page  was  written  by  Christoph  Lameter
       lt;chris@waterf.org,  for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux   system.
       Edited  by  H. Peter Anvin lt;hpa@transmeta.com.  Edited by
       Michael K. Johnson lt;johnsonm@redhat.com to match Red  Hat
       Linux.