.\" Copyright (c) 1990 Jan-Simon Pendry
.\" Copyright (c) 1990 Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
.\" Jan-Simon Pendry at Imperial College, London.
.\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
.\" @(#)amq.8 5.2 (Berkeley) %G%
.Nd automounter query tool
provides a simple way of determining the current state of
Three modes of operation are supported by the current protocol.
By default a list of mount points and auto-mounted filesystems
An alternative host can be specified using the
If directory names are given, as output by default,
then per-filesystem information is displayed.
Request automounter to flush the internal
By default the local host is used. In an
cluster, the root server is queried by default, since
that is the system on which the automounter is normally run.
Request automounter to provide a list of mounted filesystems,
including the number of references to each filesystem and any error
which occured while mounting.
Request automounter to provide system-wide mount statistics.
Request automounter to unmount the named filesystems
instead of providing information about them. Unmounts are requested,
not forced. They merely cause the mounted filesystem to timeout,
which will be picked up by
main scheduler thus causing the normal timeout action to be taken.
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program number (300019 decimal) which may not
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