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MOUNTD(8)               NetBSD System Manager's Manual               MOUNTD(8)


NAME
mountd - service remote NFS mount requests
SYNOPSIS
mountd [-dn] [exportsfile]
DESCRIPTION
mountd is the server for NFS mount requests from other client machines. mountd listens for service requests at the port indicated in the NFS server specification; see Network File System Protocol Specification, RFC1094, Appendix A and NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification, Appendix I. Options and operands available for mountd: -d Enable debugging mode. mountd will not detach from the control- ling terminal and will print debugging messages to stderr. -n This flag used to indicate that clients were required to make re- quests from reserved ports, but it is now no longer functional. It is only provided for backwards compatibility. Requests are checked for reserved ports on a per-export basis, see exports(5). exportsfile The exportsfile argument specifies an alternative location for the exports file. When mountd is started, it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel using the mount(2) system call. After changing the ex- ports file, a hangup signal should be sent to the mountd daemon to get it to reload the export information. After sending the SIGHUP (kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`), check the syslog output to see if mountd logged any parsing errors in the exports file. After receiving SIGTERM, mountd sends a broadcast request to remove the mount list from all the clients. This can take a long time, since the broadcast request waits for each client to respond.
FILES
/etc/exports the list of exported filesystems /var/run/mountd.pid the pid of the currently running mountd
SEE ALSO
nfsstat(1), exports(5), nfsd(8), rpcbind(8), showmount(8)
HISTORY
The mountd utility first appeared in 4.4BSD. NetBSD 1.6.2 April 28, 1995 1

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