1.\" Copyright (c) 2016 The DragonFly Project 2.\" Copyright (c) 2014 The FreeBSD Foundation 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" This software was developed by Edward Tomasz Napierala under sponsorship 6.\" from the FreeBSD Foundation. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 17.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 18.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 19.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 20.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 21.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 22.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 23.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 24.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 25.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 26.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 27.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" 29.\" $FreeBSD$ 30.\" 31.Dd November 27, 2019 32.Dt AUTOMOUNTD 8 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm automountd 36.Nd daemon handling autofs mount requests 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl D Ar name=value 40.Op Fl i 41.Op Fl m Ar maxproc 42.Op Fl o Ar options 43.Op Fl d 44.Op Fl v 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm 48daemon is responsible for handling 49.Xr autofs 5 50mount requests, parsing maps, 51and mounting filesystems they specify. 52On startup, 53.Nm 54forks into background and waits for kernel requests. 55When a request is received, 56.Nm 57forks a child process. 58The child process parses the appropriate map and mounts filesystems accordingly. 59Then it signals the kernel to release blocked processes that were waiting 60for the mount. 61.Bl -tag -width ".Fl v" 62.It Fl D 63Define a variable. 64.It Fl i 65For indirect mounts, only create subdirectories if there are no wildcard 66entries. 67Without 68.Fl i , 69.Nm 70creates all the subdirectories it can. 71Users may not realize that the wildcard map entry makes it possible to access 72directories that have not yet been created. 73.It Fl m Ar maxproc 74Limit the number of forked 75.Nm 76processes, and thus the number of mount requests being handled in parallel. 77The default is 30. 78.It Fl d 79Debug mode: increase verbosity and do not daemonize. 80.It Fl o Ar options 81Specify mount options. 82Options specified here will be overridden by options entered in maps or 83.Xr auto_master 5 . 84.It Fl T 85Increase verbosity. 86For compatibility with other implementations, such as OS X. 87.It Fl v 88Increase verbosity. 89.El 90.Sh EXIT STATUS 91.Ex -std 92.Sh SEE ALSO 93.Xr autofs 5 , 94.Xr auto_master 5 , 95.Xr hammer 5 , 96.Xr automount 8 , 97.Xr autounmountd 8 98.Sh HISTORY 99The 100.Nm 101daemon appeared in 102.Fx 10.1 . 103The 104.Nm 105daemon appeared in 106.Dx 4.5 . 107.Sh AUTHORS 108The 109.Nm 110was developed by 111.An Edward Tomasz Napierala Aq Mt trasz@FreeBSD.org 112under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation. 113.Pp 114The 115.Nm 116was ported to 117.Dx 118by 119.An Tomohiro Kusumi Aq Mt tkusumi@netbsd.org . 120Donated to DragonFlyBSD by PeerCorps Trust Fund. 121