NAME
automountd —
daemon handling autofs mount
requests
SYNOPSIS
automountd |
[-div] [-D
name=value] [-m
maxproc] [-o
options] |
DESCRIPTION
Theautomountd daemon is responsible for handling
autofs(5) mount requests, parsing maps, and mounting file systems they
specify. On startup, automountd forks into background
and waits for kernel requests. When a request is received,
automountd forks a child process. The child process
parses the appropriate map and mounts file systems accordingly. Then it
signals the kernel to release blocked processes that were waiting for the
mount.
-D- Define a variable.
-d- Debug mode: increase verbosity and do not daemonize.
-i- For indirect mounts, only create subdirectories if there are no wildcard
entries. Without
-i,automountdcreates all the subdirectories it can. Users may not realize that the wildcard map entry makes it possible to access directories that have not yet been created. -mmaxproc- Limit the number of forked
automountdprocesses, and thus the number of mount requests being handled in parallel. The default is 30. -ooptions- Specify mount options. Options specified here will be overridden by options entered in maps or auto_master(5).
-v- Increase verbosity.
EXIT STATUS
The automountd utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The automountd daemon appeared in
FreeBSD 10.1. The automountd
daemon appeared in DragonFly 4.5. The
automountd command appeared in
NetBSD 9.0.
AUTHORS
The automountd was developed by
Edward Tomasz Napierala
<trasz@FreeBSD.org>
under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.
automountd was ported to
DragonFly and NetBSD by
Tomohiro Kusumi
<kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com>.