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+.\" Copyright (c) 2014 The FreeBSD Foundation
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This software was developed by Edward Tomasz Napierala under sponsorship
+.\" from the FreeBSD Foundation.
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+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd April 20, 2014
+.Dt AUTOMOUNTD 8
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm automountd
+.Nd daemon handling autofs mount requests
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Op Fl D Ar name=value
+.Op Fl i
+.Op Fl m Ar maxproc
+.Op Fl o Ar options
+.Op Fl d
+.Op Fl v
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+daemon is responsible for handling
+.Xr autofs 5
+mount requests, parsing maps,
+and mounting filesystems they specify.
+On startup,
+.Nm
+forks into background and waits for kernel requests.
+When a request is received,
+.Nm
+forks a child process.
+The child process parses the appropriate map and mounts filesystems accordingly.
+Then it signals the kernel to release blocked processes that were waiting
+for the mount.
+.Bl -tag -width ".Fl v"
+.It Fl D
+Define a variable.
+.It Fl i
+For indirect mounts, only create subdirectories if there are no wildcard
+entries.
+Without
+.Fl i ,
+.Nm
+creates all the subdirectories it can.
+Users may not realize that the wildcard map entry makes it possible to access
+directories that have not yet been created.
+.It Fl m Ar maxproc
+Limit the number of forked
+.Nm
+processes, and thus the number of mount requests being handled in parallel.
+The default is 30.
+.It Fl d
+Debug mode: increase verbosity and do not daemonize.
+.It Fl o Ar options
+Specify mount options.
+Options specified here ill be overridden by options entered in maps or
+.Xr auto_master 5 .
+.It Fl v
+Increase verbosity.
+.El
+.Sh EXIT STATUS
+.Ex -std
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr auto_master 5 ,
+.Xr autofs 5 ,
+.Xr automount 8 ,
+.Xr autounmountd 8
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+daemon appeared in
+.Fx 10.1 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+The
+.Nm
+was developed by
+.An Edward Tomasz Napierala Aq Mt trasz@FreeBSD.org
+under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.