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
- 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.
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
<kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com>.