AUTOFS.CONF(5)

NAME
autofs.conf - automount(8) and automountd(8) configuration file

DESCRIPTION
The autofs.conf file specifies various configuration options for automount(8) and automountd(8).

autofs.conf consists of a series of lines, each of which may contain a line that sets a parameter, a comment, or a blank line.

A line that sets a parameter has the format:
    parameter=value
A “#” is the comment character, and all characters from it to the end of line are ignored.

The parameters that are supported are:

AUTOMOUNT_TIMEOUT
    The number of seconds after which an automounted file system will be unmounted if it hasn't been referred to within that period of time. The default is 10 minutes (600 seconds). This is equivalent to the -t option in automount(8).

AUTOMOUNT_VERBOSE
    TRUE or FALSE; if TRUE, automount(8) will print more detailed information about the actions it takes. This is equivalent to the -v option to automount(8).

AUTOMOUNTD_VERBOSE
    TRUE or FALSE; if TRUE, automountd(8) will log to syslogd(8) more detailed information about the actions it takes. This is equivalent to the -v option to automountd(8).

AUTOMOUNTD_NOBROWSE
    TRUE or FALSE; if TRUE, automountd(8) will disable browsing of all maps. This is equivalent to the -n option to automountd(8).

AUTOMOUNTD_TRACE
    The trace level for logging information about requests received by automountd(8) from autofs, processing done for those requests, and replies sent to autofs. The default level of 0 causes no information to be logged; each higher value causes more information to be logged. This controls the same trace level that the -T option to automountd(8) controls. The trace is logged to /var/log/system.log

AUTOMOUNTD_MNTOPTS
    A string containing a comma-separated list of mount options that will be applied, by default, to all mounts done by automountd(8). The options for a particular mount can override these options. This controls the same options that the -o option to automountd(8)

AUTOMOUNTD_NOSUID
    TRUE or FALSE; if TRUE, automountd(8) will force all mounts to have the "nosuid" mount option set.

AUTOMOUNTD_ENV
    A string of the form
        name=value
    that causes the environment variable name to be set to the value value in automountd(8). Environment variables can be referred to in map entries; the value of the environment variable is substituted for the reference to the variable. This is equivalent to the -D option to automountd(8).

FILES
/etc/autofs.conf
    This file.

SEE ALSO
auto_master(5), automount(8), automountd(8)