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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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automountd — Mount/Unmount Daemon for autofs

Synopsis

/usr/lib/fs/autofs/automountd [-Tvn][-D name=value]

Description

The automountd daemon controls automounting activities. It is an RPC server that answers file-system mount and unmount requests from the autofs file system. automountd uses local files or nameservice maps to locate file systems to be mounted. These maps are described with the automount(1M) command.

The automountd daemon is automatically invoked in run level 2 from the /etc/rc2.d/S74autofs run control script.

Options

-T Expand each RPC call and display it on the standard output.
-v Log status messages to the console.
-n Turn off browsing for all autofs mount points. This option overrides the -browse autofs map option on the local ...
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