2.2. autofs

Starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, behavior of the umount -l autofs command has changed. For more information, refer to BZ#452122.

Previously, the umount -l would unmount all autofs-managed mounts and autofs internal mounts at start-up, and then mounted all autofs mounts again as a part of the start-up procedure. As a result, the execution of the external umount -l command was not needed.

The previous autofs behavior can be used via the following commands:

service autofs forcerestart

~]# service autofs forcerestart

or

service autofs forcestart

~]# service autofs forcestart