1.\" Copyright (c) 2014 The FreeBSD Foundation 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This software was developed by Edward Tomasz Napierala under sponsorship 5.\" from the FreeBSD Foundation. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" $FreeBSD$ 29.\" 30.Dd March 10, 2015 31.Dt AUTOMOUNTD 8 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm automountd 35.Nd daemon handling autofs mount requests 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Op Fl D Ar name=value 39.Op Fl i 40.Op Fl m Ar maxproc 41.Op Fl o Ar options 42.Op Fl d 43.Op Fl v 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm 47daemon is responsible for handling 48.Xr autofs 5 49mount requests, parsing maps, 50and mounting filesystems they specify. 51On startup, 52.Nm 53forks into background and waits for kernel requests. 54When a request is received, 55.Nm 56forks a child process. 57The child process parses the appropriate map and mounts filesystems accordingly. 58Then it signals the kernel to release blocked processes that were waiting 59for the mount. 60.Bl -tag -width ".Fl v" 61.It Fl D 62Define a variable. 63.It Fl i 64For indirect mounts, only create subdirectories if there are no wildcard 65entries. 66Without 67.Fl i , 68.Nm 69creates all the subdirectories it can. 70Users may not realize that the wildcard map entry makes it possible to access 71directories that have not yet been created. 72.It Fl m Ar maxproc 73Limit the number of forked 74.Nm 75processes, and thus the number of mount requests being handled in parallel. 76The default is 30. 77.It Fl d 78Debug mode: increase verbosity and do not daemonize. 79.It Fl o Ar options 80Specify mount options. 81Options specified here will be overridden by options entered in maps or 82.Xr auto_master 5 . 83.It Fl v 84Increase verbosity. 85.El 86.Sh EXIT STATUS 87.Ex -std 88.Sh SEE ALSO 89.Xr auto_master 5 , 90.Xr autofs 5 , 91.Xr automount 8 , 92.Xr autounmountd 8 93.Sh HISTORY 94The 95.Nm 96daemon appeared in 97.Fx 10.1 . 98.Sh AUTHORS 99The 100.Nm 101was developed by 102.An Edward Tomasz Napierala Aq Mt trasz@FreeBSD.org 103under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation. 104