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.\" $FreeBSD$ 28.\" 29.Dd March 10, 2015 30.Dt AUTOMOUNTD 8 31.Os 32.Sh NAME 33.Nm automountd 34.Nd daemon handling autofs mount requests 35.Sh SYNOPSIS 36.Nm 37.Op Fl D Ar name=value 38.Op Fl i 39.Op Fl m Ar maxproc 40.Op Fl o Ar options 41.Op Fl d 42.Op Fl v 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46daemon is responsible for handling 47.Xr autofs 5 48mount requests, parsing maps, 49and mounting filesystems they specify. 50On startup, 51.Nm 52forks into background and waits for kernel requests. 53When a request is received, 54.Nm 55forks a child process. 56The child process parses the appropriate map and mounts filesystems accordingly. 57Then it signals the kernel to release blocked processes that were waiting 58for the mount. 59.Bl -tag -width ".Fl v" 60.It Fl D 61Define a variable. 62.It Fl i 63For indirect mounts, only create subdirectories if there are no wildcard 64entries. 65Without 66.Fl i , 67.Nm 68creates all the subdirectories it can. 69Users may not realize that the wildcard map entry makes it possible to access 70directories that have not yet been created. 71.It Fl m Ar maxproc 72Limit the number of forked 73.Nm 74processes, and thus the number of mount requests being handled in parallel. 75The default is 30. 76.It Fl d 77Debug mode: increase verbosity and do not daemonize. 78.It Fl o Ar options 79Specify mount options. 80Options specified here will be overridden by options entered in maps or 81.Xr auto_master 5 . 82.It Fl v 83Increase verbosity. 84.El 85.Sh EXIT STATUS 86.Ex -std 87.Sh SEE ALSO 88.Xr auto_master 5 , 89.Xr autofs 5 , 90.Xr automount 8 , 91.Xr autounmountd 8 92.Sh HISTORY 93The 94.Nm 95daemon appeared in 96.Fx 10.1 . 97.Sh AUTHORS 98The 99.Nm 100was developed by 101.An Edward Tomasz Napierala Aq Mt trasz@FreeBSD.org 102under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation. 103