Command-Line Options

This section includes information on the command-line options available for Enhanced AutoFS.

Table 3-1 “Automount Command-Line Options” lists the automount command-line options available for Enhanced AutoFS.

Table 3-1 Automount Command-Line Options

Option	Purpose
-f master file	Specify a local master file for initialization. If you use the `-f` option, and the specified master file is not found, automount uses the switch policy for automount in `/etc/nsswitch.conf`. If it fails to access the `nsswitch.conf` file, or if the switch policy for automount does not exist, automount first defaults to `/etc/auto_master`, and then it defaults to the NIS `auto_master` map.
-t duration	Specify time in seconds so that AutoFS can unmount a file system that is not accessed within this interval. The default value is 10 minutes.
-v	Verbose mode. Notify about AutoFS mounts, unmounts, or other non-essential information.

Table 2-6 lists the automountd command-line options available for Enhanced AutoFS.

Table 3-2 Automountd Command-Line Options

Option	Purpose
-D variable = value	Assign value to the indicated AutoFS map substitution variable. You cannot use these assignments to substitute variables in the master map.
-n	Turn off browsing for all AutoFS mount points. It gives an easy way to disable browsing of all maps without having to specify the nobrowse option for each indirect AutoFS map.
-T	Enable tracing and display tracing information to the `/var/adm/automount.log` file.
-v	Verbose mode. Logs status messages to the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file.
-L	Force all mounts to the local host to be NFS mounts instead of the default LOFS mounts.

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