AUTOFS.CONF(5)                File Formats Manual               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 1 hour (3600 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)

Darwin                          March 27, 2007                          Darwin