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NAME

       automount - manage autofs mount points

SYNOPSIS

       automount [options] [master_map]

DESCRIPTION

       The  automount  program  is  used  to  manage  mount  points for autofs, the inlined Linux
       automounter.  automount works by reading the auto.master(5) map and sets up  mount  points
       for  each entry in the master map allowing them to be automatically mounted when accessed.
       The file systems are then automatically umounted after a period of inactivity.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Print brief help on program usage.

       -p, --pid-file
              Write the pid of the daemon to the specified file.

       -t <seconds>, --timeout <seconds>
              Set the global minimum timeout, in seconds, until directories  are  unmounted.  The
              default  is  10  minutes.  Setting the timeout to zero disables umounts completely.
              The internal program default is 10 minutes, but the default installed configuration
              overrides  this  and  sets  the  timeout to 5 minutes to be consistent with earlier
              autofs releases.

       -M <seconds>, --master-wait <seconds>
              Set the maximum time to wait for the master map to become available if it cannot be
              read at program start.

       -n <seconds>, --negative-timeout <seconds>
              Set the default timeout for caching failed key lookups. The default is 60 seconds.

       -v, --verbose
              Enables  logging  of  general  status  and progress messages for all autofs managed
              mounts.

       -d[LEVEL], --debug[=LEVEL]
              Enables logging of general status  and  progress  messages  as  well  as  debugging
              messages  for  all autofs managed mounts. The default LEVEL is 0.  automounter must
              perform OpenLDAP authenticated binds  for  optional  argument  LEVEL  to  have  any
              effect.  OpenLDAP  uses a bitmap to enable debugging for specific components. Debug
              LEVEL=0 disables libldap deugging.  For further details see slapd(8).

       -Dvariable=value, --define variable=value
              Define a global macro substitution variable.  Global  definitions  are  over-ridden
              macro definitions of the same name specified in mount entries.

       -S, --systemd-service
              Used  when  running the automounter as a systemd service to ensure log entry format
              is consistent with the log entry format when running as a daemon.

       -f, --foreground
              Run the daemon in the foreground and log to stderr instead of syslog."

       -r, --random-multimount-selection
              Enables the use of random selection when choosing a host from a list of  replicated
              servers.

       -m, --dumpmaps [<map type> <map name>]
              With  no  parameters,  list information about the configured automounter maps, then
              exit.

              If the dumpmaps option is given and is followed by two parameters, "<map type> <map
              name>"  then  simple  "<key,  value>" pairs that would be read in by a map read are
              printed to stdout if the given  map  type  and  map  name  are  found  in  the  map
              configuration.

              If  the map is an LDAP map and there is more than one map of same name in different
              base dns only the first map encountered by autofs will be listed. Similarly, if the
              map  is  a  file  map  and there is more than one map of the same name in different
              directories, only the first map encountered will be listed.

              If the map type is an old style multi-map and any one  of  the  map  names  in  the
              multi-map entry matches the given map name the entries that would be used by autofs
              for the whole multi-map will be listed.

       -O, --global-options
              Allows the specification of global mount options used for all master  map  entries.
              These  options  will either replace or be appended to options given in a master map
              entry depending on the APPEND_OPTIONS configuration setting.

       -V, --version
              Display the version number, then exit.

       -l, --set-log-priority priority path [path,...]
              Set the daemon log priority to the  specified  value.   Valid  values  include  the
              numbers  0-7,  or  the  strings  emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info, or
              debug. Log level debug will log everything, log levels info, warn (or warning),  or
              notice  with  enable  the  daemon  verbose  logging. Any other level will set basic
              logging. Note  that  enabling  debug  or  verbose  logging  in  the  autofs  global
              configuration  will  override  dynamic  log  level changes. For example, if verbose
              logging is set in the  configuration  then  attempting  to  set  logging  to  basic
              logging,  by  using  alert,  crit,  err  or  emerg  won't stop the verbose logging.
              However, setting logging to debug will lead to  everything  (debug  logging)  being
              logged  witch  can  then also be disabled, returning the daemon to verbose logging.
              This option can be specified to change the logging priority of an  already  running
              automount process.

              The  path  argument  corresponds  to  the automounted path name as specified in the
              master map.

       -C, --dont-check-daemon
              Don't check if the daemon is currently running (see NOTES).

       -F, --force
              Force an unlink umount of existing mounts under  configured  autofs  managed  mount
              points  during  startup.  This  can  cause  problems  for  processes  with  working
              directories within these mounts (see NOTES).

       -U, --force-exit
              Force an unlink umount of existing mounts under  configured  autofs  managed  mount
              points  and  exit  rather  than continuing the startup. This can cause problems for
              processes with working directories within these mounts (see NOTES).

ARGUMENTS

       automount takes one optional argument, the name of the master map to use.

       master_map
              Location for autofs master map that defines autofs managed  mount  points  and  the
              mount maps they will use. The default is auto.master.

NOTES

       If  the automount daemon catches a USR1 signal, it will umount all currently unused autofs
       managed mounted file systems and continue running (forced expire).  If it catches the TERM
       signal it will umount all unused autofs managed mounted file systems and exit if there are
       no remaining busy file systems. If autofs has been compiled with the option to ignore busy
       mounts  on  exit it will exit leaving any busy mounts in place otherwise busy file systems
       will not be umounted and autofs will not exit.  Alternatively, if autofs has been compiled
       with  the option to enable forced shutdown then a USR2 signal to the daemon will cause all
       mounts to be umounted and any busy mounts to be forcibly umounted, including autofs  mount
       point  directories (summary execution). Note that the forced umount is an unlink operation
       and the actual umount will not  happen  in  the  kernel  until  active  file  handles  are
       released.   The  daemon also responds to a HUP signal which triggers an update of the maps
       for each mount point.

       If any autofs mount point directories are busy when the daemon is sent an exit signal  the
       daemon  will  not  exit.  The exception to this is if autofs has been built with configure
       options to either ignore busy mounts at exit or force umount at exit. If the  ignore  busy
       mounts at exit option is used the filesystems will be left in a catatonic (non-functional)
       state and can be manually umounted when they become unused. If the force  umount  at  exit
       option  is used the filesystems will be umounted but the mount will not be released by the
       kernel until they are no longer in use by the processes that held them busy.  If automount
       managed filesystems are found mounted when autofs is started they will be recovered unless
       they are no longer present in the map in which case they need to umounted manually.

       If the option to disable the check to see if the daemon is  already  running  is  used  be
       aware  that  autofs  currently  may  not function correctly for certain types of automount
       maps.  The  mounts  of  the  separate  daemons  might  interfere  with  one  another.  The
       implications of running multiple daemon instances needs to be checked and tested before we
       can say this is supported.

       If the option to force an unlink of mounts at startup is used then processes whose working
       directory is within unlinked automounted directories will not get the correct pwd from the
       system. This is because, after the mount is unlinked from the mount  tree,  anything  that
       needs  to  walk back up the mount tree to construct a path, such as getcwd(2) and the proc
       filesystem /proc/<pid>/cwd,  cannot  work  because  the  point  from  which  the  path  is
       constructed has been detached from the mount tree.

SEE ALSO

       autofs(5), autofs(8), autofs.conf(5), auto.master(5), mount(8), autofs_ldap_auth.conf(5).

BUGS

       Don't know, I've fixed everything I know about.

       The documentation could be better.

       Please  report  other  bugs along with a detailed description to <autofs@vger.kernel.org>.
       Visit http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#autofs for information about the list.

AUTHOR

       H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> and Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>.

                                           12 Apr 2006                               AUTOMOUNT(8)