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automountd(1M) automountd(1M)

NAME

automountd - autofs mount/unmount daemon

SYNOPSIS

automountd[-Tv][-D name=value]

DESCRIPTION

automountd is an RPC server that answers ﬁle system mount and unmount requests from the autofs

ﬁlesystem. It uses local ﬁles or name service maps to locate ﬁlesystems to be mounted. These maps are

described with the automount command (see automount(1M)).

The automountd daemon is automatically invoked if the AUTOFS variable and the AUTOMOUNT variable

are set to 1 in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf.

Options

-T Trace. Expand each RPC call and display it to /var/adm/automount.log.

-v Verbose. Log status messages to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log.

-D name=value

Assign value to the indicated automount map substitution variable. These assignments cannot be

used to substitute variablesin the master map auto_master .

Tracing

While automountd is running, the signal SIGUSR2 can be sent to automountd to turn tracing on. It

logs messages in /var/adm/automount.log

. To turn tracing off, send the signal SIGUSR2 again.

The automount Daemon

In some releases of HP-UX, there are two versions of

automount, autofs and the old automounter. They

are both documented in automount(1M). To use autofs instead of the old automount daemon, set the

AUTOFS variable to 1 in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

EXIT STATUS

automountd returns:

0 successful

1 failure

EXAMPLES

To turn on tracing, enter:

/usr/lib/netsvc/fs/autofs/automountd -T

automountd -T

No messages are displayed by the trace. Check the results in /var/adm/automount.log.

AUTHOR

automountd was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

FILES

/etc/auto_master master map for automounter

/var/adm/automount.log log ﬁle for automountd

/usr/lib/netsvc/fs/autofs/automountd

autofs daemon