MOUNTD
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NAME
mountd
- service remote
NFS
mount requests
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/mountd
[-nr
]
[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
- -n
-
The
-n
option allows non-root mount requests to be served.
This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's,
that require it.
- -r
-
The
-r
option allows mount RPCs requests for regular files to be served.
Although this seems to violate the mount protocol specification,
some diskless workstations do mount requests for
their swapfiles and expect them to be regular files.
Since a regular file cannot be specified in
/etc/exports
the entire file system in which the swapfiles resides
will have to be exported with the
-alldirs
flag.
- exportsfile
-
The
exportsfile
argument specifies an alternate 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 exports 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.
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),
portmap(8),
showmount(8)
HISTORY
The
mountd
utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.
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