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AUTOMOUNTD(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual AUTOMOUNTD(8) NAME automountd -- daemon handling autofs mount requests SYNOPSIS automountd [-D name=value] [-i] [-m maxproc] [-o options] [-d] [-v] DESCRIPTION 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. -D Define a variable. -i For indirect mounts, only create subdirectories if there are no wild- card 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. -m maxproc Limit the number of forked automountd processes, and thus the number of mount requests being handled in parallel. The default is 30. -d Debug mode: increase verbosity and do not daemonize. -o options Specify mount options. Options specified here will be overridden by options entered in maps or auto_master(5). -v Increase verbosity. EXIT STATUS The automountd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO auto_master(5), autofs(5), automount(8), autounmountd(8) HISTORY The automountd daemon appeared in FreeBSD 10.1. AUTHORS The automountd was developed by Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org> under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 11.1 March 10, 2015 FreeBSD 11.1
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