1AUTOFS.CONF(5)                File Formats Manual               AUTOFS.CONF(5)
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NAME

6       autofs.conf - autofs configuration
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DESCRIPTION

9       Configuration  settings used by automount(8) may be changed in the con‐
10       figuration file /etc/autofs.conf.
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12       This file contains two primary sections, autofs and amd.
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14       Configuration entries may be present at the beginning of the configura‐
15       tion  file without a section header and are implicitly included as part
16       of the autofs section.
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18       Each section name is enclosed in square brackets  with  spaces  between
19       the  brackets  and the section name. The amd section may be followed by
20       further sections, named by the top level mount point path, that contain
21       per mount configuration settings.
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SECTION autofs CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

24       Configuration settings available are:
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26       timeout
27              Sets  the default mount timeout in seconds. The internal program
28              default is 10 minutes, but the default  installed  configuration
29              overrides  this  and sets the timeout to 5 minutes to be consis‐
30              tent with earlier autofs releases.
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32       master_wait
33              sets the default maximum time to wait  for  the  master  map  to
34              become  available if it cannot be read at program start (program
35              default 10, wait for 10 seconds then continue).
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37       negative_timeout
38              Set the default timeout for caching failed key lookups  (program
39              default  60).  If the equivalent command line option is given it
40              will override this setting.
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42       mount_wait
43              Set the default time to wait  for  a  response  from  a  spawned
44              mount(8) before sending it a SIGTERM. Note that we still need to
45              wait for the RPC layer to timeout before the  sub-process  exits
46              so this isn't ideal but it is the best we can do. The default is
47              to wait until mount(8) returns without intervention.
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49       umount_wait
50              Set the default time to wait  for  a  response  from  a  spawned
51              umount(8)  before  sending it a SIGTERM. Note that we still need
52              to wait for the RPC layer  to  timeout  before  the  sub-process
53              exits so this isn't ideal but it is the best we can do.
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55       browse_mode
56              Maps are browsable by default (program default "yes").
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58       mount_nfs_default_protocol
59              Set  the default protocol that mount.nfs(8) uses when performing
60              a mount (program default 3). Autofs needs to  know  the  default
61              NFS  protocol  that  mount.nfs(8) uses so it can do special case
62              handling for its availability probe for different NFS protocols.
63              Since  we  can't  identify this default automatically we need to
64              set it in the autofs configuration.
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66       append_options
67              Determine whether global options, given on the command  line  or
68              per  mount  in the master map, are appended to map entry options
69              or if the map entry options replace the global options  (program
70              default "yes", append options).
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72       logging
73              set  default  log  level  "none",  "verbose" or "debug" (program
74              default "none"