NAME
automountd —
daemon handling autofs
mount requests
SYNOPSIS
automountd |
[-div]
[-D
name=value]
[-m
maxproc]
[-o
options] |
DESCRIPTION
The
automountd 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,
automountd creates 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.
-
-
- -m
maxproc
- Limit the number of forked automountd
processes, and thus the number of mount requests being handled in
parallel. The default is 30.
-
-
- -o
options
- 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
auto_master(5),
autofs(5),
automount(8),
autounmountd(8)
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>.