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

NAME
       amq - automounter query tool

SYNOPSIS
       amq  [ -fmpqsvwHTU ] [ -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.

       -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.

				 25 April 1989				AMQ(8)

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