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Re: Restoring automounts

Andre LaBranche wrote:
On Jun 5, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Scot Hacker wrote: 
Hi all  - Quick question I couldn't find an answer to in the archives.

Servers A and B store user homes, Server C is a web server that automounts those homes on boot and makes available user Sites folders through apache. If either A or B is rebooted and C is not, those Site folders become inaccessible, since the mount is broken.

The question is, is there a command I can run that will re-initiate the same mount connection that occurs at boot time, so I can restore the mounts on C without restarting the server? I see that I can build map files and pass them to the automount command., but am thinking there must be an easier way - a command that will reproduce whatever mount process is normally run during boot.

I'd like to set up some kind of automated job to check for the mounts and re-mount the broken connections if necessary.

Thanks,
Scot


Hello,

Yes, this is possible. The high level view: On server C, unmount all automounted filesystems, kill all automount processes, restart the two automount processes, make the symlink in /N/S.
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Automount is started at boot time by the NFS startup item. This item also handles NFS services, so simply re-executing this startup item may affect more than just the automounts if you are also an NFS server. 

Dear  Scot;

Doesn't the background option for hard nfs mounting allow for automatic re-connecting? (http://www.hmug.org/man/8/mount_nfs.php)

What network file protocol are you using (NFS, AFP, SMB) ? Are you using OS 10.4's automounter ?

Isaac Vetter
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