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automountd(1M)		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  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 ALSO
       svcs(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.

SunOS 5.10			  3 Mar 2005			automountd(1M)
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