Hi, I've been playing with automount and recently tried "kill -1" to get it to re-read the config file. It crashed. Crash happens in try_remount(). if (MM_PARENT(me)->key[0] == '/') { MM_PARENT() is NULL. My guess is that MM_PARENT() is only non-NULL for offset mounts and the breakage was introduced in Commit ba9fe0a (\"autofs-5.1.8 - fix incorrect path for is_mounted() in try_remount()\") The very latest patch. Prior to this patch it would only try MM_PARENT when type == t_offset. Now it always accesses it. NeilBrown