Sorry to answer my own question, but I just found the answer here: http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-5.html#ss5.3 Sorry for the noise. ;-) Biker Gustav Schaffter/CDS/CG/ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Gustav Schaffter/CDS/CG/CAPITAL) Subject: [gentoo-user] Autofs timeout 18-09-2003 10:30 Please respond to gentoo-user I have successfully setup autofs to automatically mount some nfs drives when accessed. But, there seems to be a default timeout of 60 seconds, and after this timeout the mount is umounted. For my usage of autofs it would make sense to change this timeout to somewhere around 300 seconds. I have realized that automount can take the '-t' parameter, but I'd prefer to have this in a configuration file instead of in the server startup script. When I have read the man pages, I haven't found any hints for how to setup the timeout in any configuration file. Is this possible? Any RTFM I've missed? Where do you configure this (if you do it)? Biker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list