162943Sbostic.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993 262943Sbostic.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 338462Smckusick.\" 443790Strent.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 538462Smckusick.\" 6*69032Sbostic.\" @(#)mountd.8 8.4 (Berkeley) 04/28/95 738462Smckusick.\" 847463Scael.Dd 947463Scael.Dt MOUNTD 8 1047463Scael.Os 1147463Scael.Sh NAME 1247463Scael.Nm mountd 1347463Scael.Nd service remote 1447463Scael.Tn NFS 1547463Scaelmount requests 1647463Scael.Sh SYNOPSIS 1747463Scael.Nm /sbin/mountd 1868643Smckusick.Op Fl nr 1947463Scael.Op Ar exportsfile 2047463Scael.Sh DESCRIPTION 2147463Scael.Xr Mountd 2238462Smckusickis the server for 2347463Scael.Tn NFS 2438462Smckusickmount requests from other client machines. 2547463Scael.Xr Mountd 2638462Smckusicklistens for service requests at the port indicated in the 2747463Scael.Tn NFS 2838462Smckusickserver specification; see 2947463Scael.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" , 3068643SmckusickRFC1094, Appendix A and 3168643Smckusick.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" , 3268643SmckusickAppendix I. 3347463Scael.Pp 3447463ScaelOptions and operands available for 3547463Scael.Nm mountd : 3647463Scael.Bl -tag -width Ds 3747463Scael.It Fl n 3868643SmckusickThe 3968643Smckusick.Fl n 4068643Smckusickoption allows non-root mount requests to be served. 4168643SmckusickThis should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's, 4268643Smckusickthat require it. 4368643Smckusick.It Fl r 4468643SmckusickThe 4568643Smckusick.Fl r 4668643Smckusickoption allows mount RPCs requests for regular files to be served. 4768643SmckusickAlthough this seems to violate the mount protocol specification, 4868643Smckusicksome diskless workstations do mount requests for 4968643Smckusicktheir swapfiles and expect them to be regular files. 5068643SmckusickSince a regular file cannot be specified in 5168643Smckusick.Pa /etc/exports , 5268643Smckusickthe entire file system in which the swapfiles resides 5368643Smckusickwill have to be exported with the 5468643Smckusick.Fl alldirs 5568643Smckusickflag. 5651649Smckusick.It Ar exportsfile 5747463ScaelThe 5847463Scael.Ar exportsfile 5947463Scaelargument specifies an alternate location 6044013Smckusickfor the exports file. 6147463Scael.El 6247463Scael.Pp 6351649SmckusickWhen mountd is started, 6451649Smckusickit loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel 6551649Smckusickusing the mount(2) system call. 6651649SmckusickAfter changing the exports file, 6751649Smckusicka hangup signal should be sent to the mountd daemon 6851649Smckusickto get it to reload the export information. 6951649SmckusickAfter sending the SIGHUP 70*69032Sbostic(kill \-s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`), 7151649Smckusickcheck the syslog output to see if mountd logged any parsing 7251649Smckusickerrors in the exports file. 7347463Scael.Sh FILES 7451649Smckusick.Bl -tag -width /var/run/mountd.pid -compact 7547463Scael.It Pa /etc/exports 7651649Smckusickthe list of exported filesystems 7751649Smckusick.It Pa /var/run/mountd.pid 7851649Smckusickthe pid of the currently running mountd 7947463Scael.El 8047463Scael.Sh SEE ALSO 8147463Scael.Xr nfsstat 1 , 8247463Scael.Xr exports 5 , 8347463Scael.Xr nfsd 8 , 8447463Scael.Xr portmap 8 , 8547463Scael.Xr showmount 8 8647463Scael.Sh HISTORY 8747463ScaelThe 8862942Sbostic.Nm mountd 8962942Sbosticutility first appeared in 4.4BSD. 90