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

Table 3-2 Old Automount Command-Line Options Used By AutoFS (continued)
Purpose
Equivalent AutoFS command
option
Old automount Option
To specify interval between
mount attempts.
Obsolete with AutoFS.
-tminterval
To specify interval between
unmount attempts.
Obsolete with AutoFS.
-twinterval
To specify the Verbose mode.
automount -vautomountd
-v
-v
3. Scripts that kill and restart automount are modified.
AutoFS Configuration Changes
This section describes the various methods to configure your AutoFS environment.
Configuring AutoFS Using the nfsconf File
You can use the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file to configure your AutoFS
environment. The /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file is the NFS configuration file.
This file consists of the following sets of variables or parameters:
1. Core Configuration Variables
2. Remote Lock Manager Configuration Variables
3. NFS Client and Server Configuration Variables
4. AutoFS Configuration Variables
Table 3-3 lists the AutoFS configuration variables that you can use to configure your
AutoFS environment.
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