<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Autodir options</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Autodir HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Managing group directories" HREF="x559.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Backup options" HREF="backupopts.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Autodir HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x559.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="backupopts.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="aoptions" ></A >20. Autodir options</H1 ><P >In this section some of the options to <EM >Autodir</EM > are explained. Backup options are explained in the <A HREF="backupopts.html" >backup section</A >.</P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="variablelist" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="literal" >-d</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Specifies the <EM >virtual base directory</EM >. If this path does not exist, it will be created. An absolute path is expected for this option.</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="literal" >-t</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Expiration timeout for <EM >virtual directories</EM >. For more details refer to <A HREF="vdexp.html" >virtual directory expiration</A >.</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="literal" >-m</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Module to be used with <EM >Autodir</EM >. Currently <TT CLASS="literal" >autohome</TT > and <TT CLASS="literal" >autogroup</TT > are available. The full path to the module is expected.</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="literal" >-o</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >All suboptions that are to be passed to module are given here. This option passing syntax is similar to that of the <B CLASS="command" >mount</B > command with its <TT CLASS="literal" >-o</TT > option. See specific module sections for more info.</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="literal" >-f</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Run in the foreground and log all messages to the console. For debugging purpose and to see how <EM >Autodir</EM > works.</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="literal" >-l</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >This option expects a path name to a file in which <EM >Autodir</EM > will write its process id.</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="literal" >-h</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Help about all options supported by <EM >Autodir</EM >.</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="literal" >-v</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Version information about <EM >Autodir</EM >.</P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x559.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="backupopts.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Managing group directories</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Backup options</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >