Automount option -t

[Russell Campbell]

We have just migrated to HPUX 11.xx. I have configured NFSv3 using Autofs. I have set the duration time to -t 7200 in the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file and restart automounter.

AUTOFS=1
AUTOMOUNT_OPTIONS="-t 7200"

How do make sure this is set or working. I used to just do a ps -ef|grep automounter.

[Helen French]

Hi Russel,

The '-t' option is for specifying the time duration option. The automounted directory/file system should remain mounted for 'n' seconds ( in your case 7200 Sec), when not in use.

Suppose if you have an automounted directory called '/dir1', start using that directory for some normal operations. Come out of it and make sure that nobody else is using that. Check the mounted file systems through 'bdf' command. It should remain mounted for 7200 seconds.

Check the automount daemon is working and also see the man pages.

HTH,
Shiju