autofs man page too old on my ubuntu LTS 10.04

[Tom H]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:06 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 07/23/2010 01:41 AM, Tom H wrote:
> ...
>> I installed autofs in a new Lucid vbox and these commands work perfectly for me.
>>
>> service autofs status
>> service autofs stop
>> service autofs restart
>>
>> initctl status autofs
>> initctl stop autofs
>> initctl restart autofs
>> or the shorter versions of the above
>> status autofs
>> stop autofs
>> restart autofs
>>
>> Furthermore, all upstart jobs have both an "/etc/init/job.conf" and an
>> "/etc/init.d/job" where the latter is a symlink to
>> "/lib/init/upstart-job" where "upstart-job" displays the text about
>> service.
>
> Ah. It's working this morning. I guess it needed a reboot?

I don't think so.

When I realized after I answered that I had installed Maverick not
lucid, so I booted from a Lucid live cd, installed autofs, and it
worked immediately.

You must have had some strange gremlins in your system. :)