As stated above the daemon writes a logfile. This option is only enabled when compiling without debug support (see section 5.2). Instead of writing its own logfile, automountd can be compiled for using the syslog interface (See section 5.2.3. This file is used for logging the start and shutdown of the server plus several error conditiones (both fatal and non-fatal). The entries are separated by a line of stars and start with a line naming the source file and line where the error was detected, followed by the date and time of day when the error occurred. The following lines contain the corresponding message. It looks something like this:
/*****************************************************************/ Message logging requested in file main.c, line 23 Sun Jul 30 00:25:33 1995 Initiating automountd, Version 0.05.03In cases of fatal errors, the error message is preceeded by a line containing the word ``Panic:'':
/*****************************************************************/ Message logging requested in file check_fifo.c, line 21 Sun Jul 30 00:24:40 1995 Panic: Server seems to be already running