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AMQ(8)			    System Manager's Manual			AMQ(8)

NAME
       amq - automounter query tool

SYNOPSIS
       amq [ -fimpqsvwHTU ] [ -h hostname ] [ -l log_file ] [ -x log_options ]
       [ -D debug_options ] [ -P program_number	] [[ -u	] directory ...	 ]

DESCRIPTION
       Amq  provides a simple way of determining the current state of amd pro-
       gram.  Communication is by RPC.	Three modes of operation are supported
       by the current protocol.	 By default a list of mount points  and	 auto-
       mounted	filesystems  is	 output.  An alternative host can be specified
       using the -h option.

       If directory names are given, as	output by default, then	per-filesystem
       information is displayed.

OPTIONS
       -f     Ask the automounter to flush the internal	caches and reload  all
	      the maps.

       -h hostname
	      Specify  an  alternate host to query.  By	default	the local host
	      is used.	In an HP-UX cluster, the root server is	queried	by de-
	      fault, since that	is the system on which the automounter is nor-
	      mally run.

       -i     Print information	about the mount	maps.

       -l log_file
	      Tell amd to use log_file as the log  file	 name.	 For  security
	      reasons,	this  must  be	the  same log file which amd used when
	      started.	This option is therefore only useful to	refresh	 amd's
	      open  file handle	on the log file, so that it can	be rotated and
	      compressed via daily cron	jobs.

       -m     Ask the automounter to provide a list  of	 mounted  filesystems,
	      including	 the  number  of references to each filesystem and any
	      error which occurred while mounting.

       -p     Return the process ID of the  remote  or	locally	 running  amd.
	      Useful  when you need to send a signal to	the local amd process,
	      and would	rather not have	to search through the  process	table.
	      This option is used in the ctl-amd script.

       -q     Suppress error messages produced when attempting synchronous un-
	      mounts with the -u option.

       -s     Ask the automounter to provide system-wide mount statistics.

       -u     Ask  the	automounter to unmount the filesystems named in	direc-
	      tory 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 amd's main	scheduler thus
	      causing the normal timeout action	to be taken.  If the -u	option
	      is  repeated,  amq  will attempt to unmount the file system syn-
	      chronously by waiting until the timeout action is	taken and  re-
	      turning  an error	if the unmount fails.  Any error messages pro-
	      duced may	be suppressed with the -q option.

       -v     Ask the automounter for its version information.	This is	a sub-
	      set of the information output by amd's -v	option.

       -w     Translate	a full pathname	as returned by getcwd(3) into a	 short
	      Amd  pathname  that goes through its mount points.   This	option
	      requires that Amd	is running.

       -x log_options
	      Ask the automounter to use  the  logging	options	 specified  in
	      log_options  from	now on.	 Note that the "fatal" and "error" op-
	      tions cannot be turned off.

       -D debug_options
	      Ask the automounter to use the debugging	options	 specified  in
	      debug_options from now on.

       -H     Display short usage message.

       -P program_number
	      Contact an alternate running amd that had	registered itself on a
	      different	 RPC  program_number and apply all other operations to
	      that instance of the automounter.	 This is useful	when  you  run
	      multiple	copies of amd, and need	to manage each one separately.
	      If not specified,	amq will use the default  program  number  for
	      amd,  300019.   For security reasons, the	only alternate program
	      numbers amd can use range	from 300019 to 300029, inclusive.

       -T     Contact amd using	the TCP	transport only.	 Normally amq will try
	      TCP, and if that failed, will try	UDP.

       -U     Contact amd using	UDP (connectionless) transport only.  Normally
	      amq will try TCP,	and if that failed, will try UDP.

FILES
       amq.x		   RPC protocol	description.

CAVEATS
       Amq uses	a Sun registered RPC program number (300019 decimal) which may
       not be in the /etc/rpc database.

       If the TCP wrappers  library  is	 available,  and  the  use_tcpwrappers
       global amd.conf option is set to	``yes'', then amd will verify that the
       host  running  amq is authorized	to connect.  The amd service name must
       used in the /etc/hosts.allow and	/etc/hosts.deny	files.	 For  example,
       to   allow  only	 localhost  to	connect	 to  amd,  add	this  line  to
       /etc/hosts.allow:

	      amd: localhost

       and this	line to	/etc/hosts.deny:

	      amd: ALL

SEE ALSO
       amd(8), amd.conf(5), hosts_access(5).

       ``am-utils'' info(1) entry.

       Linux  NFS  and	Automounter  Administration  by	  Erez	 Zadok,	  ISBN
       0-7821-2739-8, (Sybex, 2001).

       http://www.am-utils.org

       Amd - The 4.4 BSD Automounter

AUTHORS
       Jan-Simon  Pendry <jsp@doc.ic.ac.uk>, Department	of Computing, Imperial
       College,	London,	UK.

       Erez Zadok  <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>,	 Computer  Science  Department,	 Stony
       Brook University, Stony Brook, New York,	USA.

       Other  authors  and  contributors to am-utils are listed	in the AUTHORS
       file distributed	with am-utils.

			       15 September 2011			AMQ(8)

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