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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