automountd(1M) System Administration Commands automountd(1M)NAMEautomountd - autofs mount/unmount daemon
SYNOPSISautomountd [-Tvn] [-D name=value]
DESCRIPTIONautomountd is an RPC server that answers file system mount and unmount
requests from the autofs file system. It uses local files or name ser‐
vice maps to locate file systems to be mounted. These maps are
described with the automount(1M) command.
If automount finds any non-trivial entries in either the local or dis‐
tributed automount maps and if the daemon is not running already, the
automountd daemon is automatically invoked by automount(1M). automountd
enables the svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr service (lockd(1M)), and the
svc:/network/nfs/status service (statd(1M)), if NFS mounts need to be
done.
At startup, the automountd daemon is invoked as is invoked as the sys‐
tem/filesystem/autofs:default service. See NOTES.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-D name=value Assign value to the indicated automount map substitu‐
tion variable. These assignments cannot be used to sub‐
stitute variables in the master map auto_master.
-n Turn off browsing for all autofs mount points. This
option overrides the -browse autofs map option on the
local host.
-T Trace. Expand each RPC call and display it on the stan‐
dard output.
-v Verbose. Log status messages to the console.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of automountd when
encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
FILES
/etc/auto_master Master map for automounter.
/etc/default/autofs Supplies default values for parameters for
automount and automountd. See autofs(4).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWcsu │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOsvcs(1), automount(1M), svcadm(1M), autofs(4), attributes(5), large‐
file(5), smf(5)NOTES
The automountd service is managed by the service management facility,
smf(5), under the service identifier:
svc:/system/filesystem/autofs
Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or
requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). The service's
status can be queried using svcs(1). If it is disabled, it is enabled
by automount(1M) unless the application/auto_enable property is set to
false.
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