From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Sat Aug  5 16:00:36 2017
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org
 [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1])
 by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81881DB6CA2
 for <freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org>;
 Sat,  5 Aug 2017 16:00:36 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from jbeich@freebsd.org)
Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [96.47.72.132])
 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits))
 (Client CN "freefall.freebsd.org",
 Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK))
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 62A127DAC8;
 Sat,  5 Aug 2017 16:00:36 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from jbeich@freebsd.org)
Received: by freefall.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1354)
 id A3246AB73; Sat,  5 Aug 2017 16:00:35 +0000 (UTC)
From: Jan Beich <jbeich@vfemail.net>
To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How to suppress boot up messages from sysutils/automount
References: <CAGBxaX=28-CQUzon9M4RzX65O=OZ4=4zDfLttco-A-LrBDH4vA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 18:00:31 +0200
In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaX=28-CQUzon9M4RzX65O=OZ4=4zDfLttco-A-LrBDH4vA@mail.gmail.com>
 (Aryeh Friedman's message of "Sat, 5 Aug 2017 09:02:50 -0400")
Message-ID: <h8xm-m2cg-wny@FreeBSD.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:00:36 -0000

Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> writes:

> When I boot I get a lot of junk messages (hints about how to configure it)
> form sysutils/automount while I want to keep automount in the startup I
> want to suppress these messages -- how?
>
> Note without both settings below it does not automount my flash drive
> (da4)... also coping /usr/local/etc/automount.conf.sample to
> /usr/local/automount.conf (with appropriate edits) doesn't make the
> messages go away:
>
> I have the following in my rc.conf:
>
> autofs_enable="YES"
>
> and the following in devd.conf:
>
> # Discard autofs caches, useful for the -media special map.
> notify 100 {
>         match "system" "GEOM";
>         match "subsystem" "DEV";
>         action "/usr/local/sbin/automount -c";
> };

sysutils/automount has no relation to autofs(5). The former doesn't
support "automount -c". Perhaps, you need to pick either one instead of
trying to use both at the same time.