Don't know if it will work with automountd or not, but with most unix-
type daemons, they can be restarted by sending them a hang-up
command. In terminal, do a ps -aux or just -a if you don't care who
owns the processes, they're generally easier to find if you know who
owns them though.
Find the process number of the automount daemon, then just type
kill -HUP <pid>
where <pid> is thhe process number. I.E. if automountd was process
10821, you would type
kill -HUP 10821
This will send the hangup signal to the automount daemon, and cause
it to reload all of it's config information, and even restart in some
cases.
Give that a try, and see if it helps.
I've never tried this on any OSX processes, but I'd wager it works,
since it does on all other unix-type oses.
On Jan 16, 2006, at 1:14 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi all
Does anyone know how to restart the automount service, aside from
killing both instances and restarting them by typing both rather
long commands into the terminal? I'm having problems with disks
mounting but not showing up on my desktop--no, this is not due to
the 10.4.4 upgrade, it was happening before that--and from what
I've been researching a restart of the automount daemon should take
care of this. It is really starting to tick me off, actually.
thx
