The
automountd
daemon is responsible for handling
autofs(5)
mount requests, parsing maps,
and mounting filesystems they specify.
On startup,
automountd
forks into background and waits for kernel requests.
When a request is received,
automountd
forks a child process.
The child process parses the appropriate map and mounts filesystems accordingly.
Then it signals the kernel to release blocked processes that were waiting
for the mount.
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| -D
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Define a variable.
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| -i
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For indirect mounts, only create subdirectories if there are no wildcard
entries.
Without
-i,
automountd
creates all the subdirectories it can.
Users may not realize that the wildcard map entry makes it possible to access
directories that have not yet been created.
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| -m maxproc
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Limit the number of forked
automountd
processes, and thus the number of mount requests being handled in parallel.
The default is 30.
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| -d
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Debug mode: increase verbosity and do not daemonize.
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| -o options
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Specify mount options.
Options specified here will be overridden by options entered in maps or
auto_master(5).
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| -v
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Increase verbosity.
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