NFS Services Administrator's Guide (B.11.31.03) August 2008

Starting with HP-UX 11i v2, Automounter is no longer supported. HP recommends
that you update to AutoFS. Updating to AutoFS offers the following advantages:
• AutoFS can be used to mount any type of filesystem.
• Automounter mounted the directories mounted under /tmp_mnt and created
symbolic links from the configured mount-points to the actual ones on /tmp_mnt.
In AutoFS, the configured mount-points are the actual mount-points.
• Automounter had to be killed and restarted when you wanted to modify maps.
In AutoFS, you need not stop AutoFS when you modify the maps. Run the
automount command after modifying the map for the change to take effect.
NOTE: Updating from Automounter to AutoFS does not require any user intervention.
The following steps are performed automatically to update all users from the
Automounter configuration to AutoFS:
1. In the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file, the AUTOFS variable is set to 1.
2. Any options you had specified in the AUTO_OPTIONS variable are copied to either
the AUTO_OPTIONS or the AUTOMOUNTD_OPTIONS variable. Obsolete options are
removed.
Table 3-2 lists the options of the old automount command and the equivalent
AutoFS command options. It also indicates which automount options are not
supported in AutoFS.
Table 3-2 Old Automount Command-Line Options Used By AutoFS
Purpose
Equivalent AutoFS command
option
Old automount Option
To assign value to the
environment variable.
automountd -Dvariable = value-Dvariable = value
To use master_file as local master
map.
automount -fmaster_file-fmaster_file
To automount directories under
mount_directory instead of
/tmp_mnt.
Obsolete with AutoFS.
-Mmount_directory
To ignore NIS auto.master
map.
Obsolete with AutoFS.
-m
To allow automounts only of
previously mounted target
filesystems.
Obsolete with AutoFS.
-n
To enable automount tracing.automountd -T-T
To specify time before
unmounting idle directories.
automount -tduration-tlduration
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