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automountd
—
daemon handling autofs mount requests
automountd |
[-div ] [-D
name=value] [-m
maxproc] [-o
options] |
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
-d
-i
-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
maxprocautomountd
processes,
and thus the number of mount requests being handled in parallel. The
default is 30.-o
options-T
-v
The automountd
utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs.
The automountd
daemon appeared in
FreeBSD 10.1. The automountd
daemon appeared in DragonFly 4.5. The
automountd
command appeared in
NetBSD 9.0.
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
<tkusumi@netbsd.org>.
November 26, 2019 | NetBSD 10.99 |