HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

New and Changed Disk and File Management Features

Mounting and Unmounting NFS File Systems Automatically Using AutoFS

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/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf. In this conﬁguration, automounter will

not mount ﬁle systems via the NFS version 3 protocol.

For more information on how to migrate to AutoFS, see Chapter 2 in the

Installing and Administering NFS Services manual.

Conﬁguration

To enable AutoFS, you must add or set the AUTOFS variable to 1 in

/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf. Here is an example of this change:

#autofs configuration. See autofs(1m)

#For the 11.0 Release line both AUTOFS and the old Automount

#are delivered. In order to invoke the AUTOFS instead of

#you must set the AUTOFS flag to 1.

#/usr/sbin/automount is now a script that sources in this file

#Depending on the variable AUTOFS, either AUTOFS or the old

#automount process will execute. The nfs.client start script

#will also use this variable to start the appropriate process

#during the boot sequence.

#AUTOFS= 0 - use the old automount process.

# 1 - use the new AutoFS.

#AUTOMOUNT_OPTIONS= - options to the AutoFS automount command

#AUTOMOUNTD_OPTIONS= - options to the AutoFS automountd daemon

#The AUTOMOUNT flag still needs to be set for either the old

#automount or new AutoFS to be started by the nfs.client

script.

AUTOFS=1

AUTOMOUNT_OPTIONS=””

AUTOMOUNTD_OPTIONS=””

Documentation Change

A new manpage, automountd (1M) describes the AutoFS automount

daemon. The automountd (1M) manpage has been modiﬁed to describe

both the old automount daemon and the new AutoFS command.

Obsolescence

Although all 11.0 patch bundles contain both AutoFS and automounter,

AutoFS will replace automounter in a future release of HP-UX.