[Bug 1173738] Re: autofs better document timeout option

[Bryce Harrington]

This is a very old bug but I can see how even in impish the man page
docs could be a bit confusing:

       -t <seconds>, --timeout <seconds>
              Set the global minimum timeout, in seconds, until directories are unmounted. The default is
              10  minutes. Setting the timeout to zero disables umounts completely.  The internal program
              default is 10 minutes, but the default installed configuration overrides this and sets  the
              timeout to 5 minutes to be consistent with earlier autofs releases.

The issue being that what's (correctly) described in the man page isn't
what's implied by the option name '--timeout'.  However, given how long
that option has been available in practice, renaming the option is
probably not feasible at this point.  And, if it should be renamed, that
is better discussed and performed upstream and not diverge from standard
practice.

** Changed in: autofs (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

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Title:
  autofs better document timeout option

Status in autofs package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Bug on Ubuntu Raring (13.04) not present with the same configuration
  with Precise (12.04)

  Autofs fails after few seconds of mount. When i open folder in my cifs
  share after very fews seconds i have been redirected in my home
  directory.

  cat /etc/auto.master
  +auto.master
  /home/gecko/Partage	/etc/auto.cifs --timeout=3 --ghost

  cat /etc/auto.cifs
  Videos          -fstype=cifs,rw,user=nas,password=<password>,rsize=262144,wsize=262144       ://Nas/Vidéos

  Debug with automount -f -v :
  Starting automounter version 5.0.7, master map /etc/auto.master
  using kernel protocol version 5.02
  mounted indirect on /home/gecko/Partage with timeout 3, freq 1 seconds
  ghosting enabled
  attempting to mount entry /home/gecko/Partage/.hidden
  key ".hidden" not found in map source(s).
  failed to mount /home/gecko/Partage/.hidden
  attempting to mount entry /home/gecko/Partage/Bibliotheque
  mounted /home/gecko/Partage/Bibliotheque
  1 remaining in /home/gecko/Partage
  1 remaining in /home/gecko/Partage
  1 remaining in /home/gecko/Partage
  1 remaining in /home/gecko/Partage
  expiring path /home/gecko/Partage/Bibliotheque
  expired /home/gecko/Partage/Bibliotheque
  umounted indirect mount /home/gecko/Partage
  shut down path /home/gecko/Partage
  autofs stopped

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