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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	program.
     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 in-
     formation 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	default,
	    since that is the system on which the automounter is normally run.

     -i     Print information about the mount maps.

     -l log_file
	    Tell  amd  to  use log_file as the log file name.  For security rea-
	    sons, this must be the same log file which amd  used  when	started.
	    This option is therefore only useful to refresh amd's open file han-
	    dle  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,  in-
	    cluding  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 directory
	    instead of providing  information  about  them.   Unmounts	are  re-
	    quested,  not  forced.   They merely cause the mounted filesystem to
	    timeout, which will be picked up by amd's main scheduler thus  caus-
	    ing  the normal timeout action to be taken.  If the -u option is re-
	    peated, amq will attempt to unmount the file system synchronously by
	    waiting until the timeout action is taken and returning an error  if
	    the  unmount  fails.   Any error messages produced may be suppressed
	    with the -q option.

     -v     Ask the automounter for its version information.  This is  a  subset
	    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_op-
	    tions from now on.	Note that the "fatal" and "error" options cannot
	    be turned off.

     -D debug_options
	    Ask the automounter to use the debugging options  specified  in  de-
	    bug_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 spec-
	    ified, 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 run-
     ning 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 lo-
     calhost 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 Col-
     lege, 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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