Enhanced AutoFS Administrator's Guide

Installing Enhanced AutoFS
Updating from Automounter to Enhanced AutoFS
Chapter 218
3. Modify the scripts (if any) that kill and restart automount. The new
AutoFS daemon, automountd, rarely needs to be restarted. If you
need to make changes to your AutoFS maps, run the automount
program after modifying the maps. automount is not a daemon; it is
a program that runs once to read the maps and then terminates.
-n Obsolete with
AutoFS.
Allow automounts of
previously mounted
target file systems
only.
-T automountd -T Enable automount
tracing.
-tl duration automount -t
duration
Specify time before
unmounting idle
directories.
-tm interval Obsolete with
AutoFS.
Specify interval
between mount
attempts.
-tw interval Obsolete with
AutoFS.
Specify interval
between unmount
attempts.
-v automount -v
automountd -v
Verbose mode.
Table 2-1 Old automount Command-Line Options (Continued)
Old automount
Option
Equivalent
AutoFS Command
Option
Purpose