The original question was:
> Here we have a mix of SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.5 NFS clients and
> servers. Occasionally a new disk is added to a server and exported,
> with the due updating of the corresponding NIS automount tables.
>
> However, it seems that a running automounter cannot be made aware of
> the news. Or can it?
>
> My attempts to kill and restart the automounter always end up in
> freezing the machine - is there a trick I am missing?
Many answers I got were valid for Solaris, and seemed to be unaware of
the difference with SunOS 4.x - the Solaris automounter is a much
improved implementation.
On Solaris, running automount again is enough to refresh the
tables. There seems to be no hope for old SunOS: one can kill
automount, but it does not really clean up until all automounted
filesystems are unmounted, and frequently freezes - even when a killed
with a TERM signal. On a heavily used system, with several
automounted partitions, it is easier to reboot than to order all users
off and wait for the system to become quiescent.
Thanks to:
hxktb0@nfs1.supervalu.com (Kris Briscoe)
mike@trdlnk.com (Michael Sullivan)
aub@atmsys.com (Alberto Begliomini)
Per.Akesson@carmenta.se (Per Akesson)
"Reggie Stuart" <Reggie_Stuart_at_~ISTG2__PO@smtpinet.aspensys.com>
Craig Nelson <nelson.ca@ghc.org>
Kevin Woods <kev@cnet.com>
Mr T Crummey <tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk>
rsm@idc.tandem.com (R.SrinivasaMoorthy)
Christophe DIARRA <diarra@ipno.in2p3.fr>
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Arnaldo Mandel
Computer Science Dept.
Universidade de S\~{a}o Paulo, Brazil
am@ime.usp.br
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