NFS Services Administrator's Guide (B.11.31.04) March 2009

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
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.
76 Configuring and Administering AutoFS