1.\" Copyright (c) 2014 The FreeBSD Foundation 2.\" 3.\" This software was developed by Edward Tomasz Napierala under sponsorship 4.\" from the FreeBSD Foundation. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 16.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 17.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 18.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 19.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 20.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 21.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 23.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 24.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 25.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.Dd March 10, 2015 28.Dt AUTOMOUNTD 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm automountd 32.Nd daemon handling autofs mount requests 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Op Fl D Ar name=value 36.Op Fl i 37.Op Fl m Ar maxproc 38.Op Fl o Ar options 39.Op Fl d 40.Op Fl v 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The 43.Nm 44daemon is responsible for handling 45.Xr autofs 5 46mount requests, parsing maps, 47and mounting filesystems they specify. 48On startup, 49.Nm 50forks into background and waits for kernel requests. 51When a request is received, 52.Nm 53forks a child process. 54The child process parses the appropriate map and mounts filesystems accordingly. 55Then it signals the kernel to release blocked processes that were waiting 56for the mount. 57.Bl -tag -width ".Fl v" 58.It Fl D 59Define a variable. 60.It Fl i 61For indirect mounts, only create subdirectories if there are no wildcard 62entries. 63Without 64.Fl i , 65.Nm 66creates all the subdirectories it can. 67Users may not realize that the wildcard map entry makes it possible to access 68directories that have not yet been created. 69.It Fl m Ar maxproc 70Limit the number of forked 71.Nm 72processes, and thus the number of mount requests being handled in parallel. 73The default is 30. 74.It Fl d 75Debug mode: increase verbosity and do not daemonize. 76.It Fl o Ar options 77Specify mount options. 78Options specified here will be overridden by options entered in maps or 79.Xr auto_master 5 . 80.It Fl v 81Increase verbosity. 82.El 83.Sh EXIT STATUS 84.Ex -std 85.Sh SEE ALSO 86.Xr auto_master 5 , 87.Xr autofs 5 , 88.Xr automount 8 , 89.Xr autounmountd 8 90.Sh HISTORY 91The 92.Nm 93daemon appeared in 94.Fx 10.1 . 95.Sh AUTHORS 96The 97.Nm 98was developed by 99.An Edward Tomasz Napierala Aq Mt trasz@FreeBSD.org 100under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation. 101