System Administration Commands                     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 service 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 distributed 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 system/filesystem/autofs:default service. See NOTES.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     -D name=value    Assign value to the indicated automount map
                      substitution  variable.  These  assignments
                      cannot be used to substitute  variables  in
                      the master map automaster.


     -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  con-
                      sole.


USAGE
     See largefile(5) for the  description  of  the  behavior  of
     automountd  when encountering files greater than or equal to



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System Administration Commands                     automountd(1M)



     2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

FILES
     /etc/automaster       Master map for automounter.


     /etc/default/autofs    Supplies default values  for  parame-
                            ters  for  automount  and automountd.
                            See autofs(4).


ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SUNWcsu                     
    


SEE ALSO
     svcs(1),  automount(1M),   svcadm(1M),   autofs(4),   attri-
     butes(5), largefile(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/autoenable property is set to false.













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