AUTOMOUNTD(1M)AUTOMOUNTD(1M)NAME
automountd - autofs mount/unmount daemon
SYNOPSIS
automountd [-Tvn] [-D name=value]
DESCRIPTION
automountd 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). auto‐
mountd 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
substitute 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
standard 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 auto‐
mount and automountd. See autofs(4).
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.
Mar 3, 2005 AUTOMOUNTD(1M)