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AUTOFS(5)							     AUTOFS(5)

AUTOFS(5)							     AUTOFS(5)

NAME
       autofs - Format of the automounter maps

DESCRIPTION
       The automounter maps are FILE, NIS, NISPLUS or LDAP maps referred to by
       the master map of the automounter  (see	auto.master(5)).   These  maps
       describe	 how  file  systems below the mount point of the map (given in
       the master map) are to be mounted.  This page  describes	 the  sun  map
       format; if another map format is specified (e.g. hesiod), this documen‐
       tation does not apply.

       Indirect maps can be changed on the fly and the automouter will	recog‐
       nize  those  changes  on	 the  next  operation it performs on that map.
       Direct maps require a HUP signal be sent to the daemon to refresh their
       contents as does the master map.

FORMAT
       This is a description of the text file format.  Other methods of speci‐
       fying these files may exist.  All empty lines or lines beginning with #
       are ignored. The basic format of one line in such maps is:

       key [-options] location

   key
       For indirect mounts this is the part of the path name between the mount
       point and the path into the filesystem when it is mounted. Usually  you
       can  think  about the key as a sub-directory name below the autofs man‐
       aged mount point.

       For direct mounts this is the full path of each mount point.  This  map
       is always associated with the /- mount point in the master map.

   options
       Zero  or	 more  options may be given.  Options can also be given in the
       auto.master file in which case both values are cumulative  (this	 is  a
       difference  from	 SunOS).   The	options	 are a list of comma separated
       options as customary for the mount(8) command. There  are  two  special
       options -fstype= used to specify a filesystem type if the filesystem is
       not of the default NFS type.  This option is  processed	by  the	 auto‐
       mounter	and not by the mount command.  -strict is used to treat errors
       when mounting file systems as fatal. This is  important	when  multiple
       file  systems  should  be  mounted  (`multi-mounts'). If this option is
       given, no file system is mounted at all if at  least  one  file	system
       can't be mounted.

   location
       The location specifies from where the file system is to be mounted.  In
       the most cases this will be  an	NFS  volume  and  the  usual  notation
       host:pathname  is used to indicate the remote filesystem and path to be
       mounted.	 If the filesystem to be mounted begins	 with  a  /  (such  as
       local  /dev  entries  or	 smbfs	shares) a : needs to be prefixed (e.g.
       :/dev/sda1).

EXAMPLE
       Indirect map:

	 kernel	   -ro,soft,intr       ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux
	 boot	   -fstype=ext2	       :/dev/hda1
	 windoze   -fstype=smbfs       ://windoze/c
	 removable -fstype=ext2	       :/dev/hdd
	 cd	   -fstype=iso9660,ro  :/dev/hdc
	 floppy	   -fstype=auto	       :/dev/fd0
	 server	   -rw,hard,intr       / -ro myserver.me.org:/ \
				       /usr myserver.me.org:/usr \
				       /home myserver.me.org:/home

       In the first line we have a NFS remote mount of the kernel directory on
       ftp.kernel.org.	 This is mounted read-only.  The second line mounts an
       ext2 volume from a local ide drive.  The third makes a  share  exported
       from  a Windows machine available for automounting.  The rest should be
       fairly self-explanatory. The last entry (the last three	lines)	is  an
       example of a multi-map (see below).

       If  you use the automounter for a filesystem without access permissions
       (like vfat), users usually can't write on such a filesystem because  it
       is  mounted  as	user  root.  You can solve this problem by passing the
       option gid=<gid>, e.g. gid=floppy. The filesystem is  then  mounted  as
       group floppy instead of root. Then you can add the users to this group,
       and they can write to the filesystem. Here's an example	entry  for  an
       autofs map:

	 floppy-vfat  -fstype=vfat,sync,gid=floppy,umask=002  :/dev/fd0

       Direct map:

	 /nfs/apps/mozilla	       bogus:/usr/local/moxill
	 /nfs/data/budgets	       tiger:/usr/local/budgets
	 /tst/sbin		       bogus:/usr/sbin

FEATURES
   Map Key Substitution
       An  &  character	 in  the  location is expanded to the value of the key
       field that matched the line (which probably only makes  sense  together
       with a wildcard key).

   Wildcard Key
       A  map  key  of * denotes a wild-card entry. This entry is consulted if
       the specified key does not exist in the map.  A typical wild-card entry
       looks like this:

	 *	   server:/export/home/&

       The special character '&' will be replaced by the provided key.	So, in
       the example above, a lookup for the key 'foo' would yield  a  mount  of
       server:/export/home/foo.

   Variable Substitution
       The  following  special	variables  will	 be substituted in the key and
       location fields of an automounter map if prefixed with $	 as  customary
       from  shell  scripts  (Curly  braces  can be used to separate the field
       name):

	 ARCH		Architecture (uname -m)
	 CPU		Processor Type
	 HOST		Hostname (uname -n)
	 OSNAME		Operating System (uname -s)
	 OSREL		Release of OS (uname -r)
	 OSVERS		Version of OS (uname -v)

       autofs provides additional variables that are set  based	 on  the  user
       requesting the mount:

	 USER		The user login name
	 UID		The user login ID
	 GROUP		The user group name
	 GID		The user group ID
	 HOME		The user home directory
	 HOST		Hostname (uname -n)

       Additional  entries can be defined with the -Dvariable=Value map-option
       to automount(8).

   Executable Maps
       A map can be marked as executable. A program map will  be  called  with
       the key as an argument.	It may return no lines of output if there's an
       error, or one or more lines containing a map entry (with \ quoting line
       breaks).	 The map entry corresponds to what would normally follow a map
       key.

       An executable map can return an error code to indicate the  failure  in
       addition to no output at all.  All output sent to stderr is logged into
       the system logs.

   Multiple Mounts
       A multi-mount map can be used to name multiple  filesystems  to	mount.
       It takes the form:

	 key [-options] [mount-point [-options] location...]...

       This  may extend over multiple lines, quoting the line-breaks with `\´.
       If present,  the	 per-mountpoint	 mount-options	are  appended  to  the
       default mount-options.

   Replicated Server
	 Multiple replicated hosts, same path:
	 <path> host1,host2,hostn:/path/path

	 Multiple hosts, some with same path, some with another
	 <path> host1,host2:/blah host3:/some/other/path

	 Multiple replicated hosts, different (potentially) paths:
	 <path> host1:/path/pathA host2:/path/pathB

	 Mutliple weighted, replicated hosts same path:
	 <path> host1(5),host2(6),host3(1):/path/path

	 Multiple weighted, replicated hosts different (potentially) paths:
	 <path> host1(3):/path/pathA host2(5):/path/pathB

	 Anything else is questionable and unsupported, but these variations will also work:
	 <path> host1(3),host:/blah

UNSUPPORTED
       This  version  of  the automounter supports direct maps stored in FILE,
       NIS, NISPLUS and LDAP only.

SEE ALSO
       automount(8), auto.master(5), autofs(8), mount(8).

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Christoph  Lameter  <chris@waterf.org>,
       for  the Debian GNU/Linux system.  Edited by H. Peter Avian <hpa@trans‐
       meta.com>,  Jeremy  Fitzhardinge	  <jeremy@goop.org>   and   Ian	  Kent
       <raven@themaw.net>.

				  14 Jan 2000			     AUTOFS(5)
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