How to reload autofs on Lion without restarting?

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I'm trying to get my host machine running Lion to automount an NFS export on my CentOS VM.

I was able to get this working on a system running Mac OS 10.5 by modifying /etc/auto_master and then restarting the autofs service per the instructions in http://alanlam.blogspot.com/2008/06/restart-autofs-in-leopard-without.html:

sudo service com.apple.autofsd stop
sudo service com.apple.autofsd start

However, in Lion, the service command appears to be missing.

How do I reload the autofs service in OS X Lion without restarting?

Does launchtcl show the com.apple.autofsd as a job that is loaded? Launchd really should be controlling this for you and logging why and when a halt / respawn or error happens. — bmike, Aug 11, 2011 at 20:49

nico · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-07 18:48:44Z

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this works for me:

sudo automount -vc

answered Aug 7, 2011 at 18:48

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Forgot about that; thanks! I like this better, since it is a 'reload' operation rather than a 'restart'.
– user5118
Aug 7, 2011 at 19:02

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Gordon Davisson · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-04 14:02:38Z

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You can use launchctl instead of service:

sudo launchctl stop com.apple.autofsd

You should not need to restart autofsdt manually; launchd will notice that it has stopped, and immediately start another instance.

answered Aug 4, 2011 at 14:02

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