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Usage is quite straightforward. Normally the daemon is started at boot
time together with other daemons (for example in /etc/rc.local). The
syntax is:
automount [-i interval]
The following arguments are supported:
- intervall: The -i option can be used to change the intervall
length
between the checks for inserted
media.
To facilitate usage, the daemon reacts to different signals:
- SIGHUP: This signal can be used to force a reread of the
initialization file.
- SIGTERM: This signal lets the daemon exit gracefully,
unmounting any device it has mounted. In this case, CD's are by
default not ejected (This can be changed, see section 5.2).
- SIGQUIT: See SIGTERM.
- SIGINT: See SIGTERM.
The daemon creates a file
, where startup, shutdown and any failures
are logged. This is a plain text file and should be self-explanatory.
If this file does not exist after the daemon was started, the daemon
was possibly compiled with an option instructing it to use the normal
syslog facility.
Fri Sep 25 18:04:42 GMT 1998