Has anyone been using automount for a while?

[tcf%monica.itri.org.tw at cunyvm.cuny.edu]

> Our network has about 100+ plus workstations and i was considering using
> automount more.  I have set up my workstation so that everything is
> automounted, even my home directory and X11 windows executables. Before i
> start configuring all our workstations like this i want to be sure it is
> stable.

> i have noticed that if the automount is NOT working, that there is no
> recourse but to reboot the machine. this would not be too good.

  There is one better way to restart the automounter:
  "send a SIGTERM (kill  -15) signal to the automount daemon".

  I usually do it in this way:

  % kill -15 `ps ax|grep automount|grep -v grep|awk '{print $1}'`;automount


        Any ideas, comments, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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