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- From: kwia4000@wncs.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE (Manfred Kwiatkowski)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: Showmount Problem
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:44:54 GMT
- Organization: Tech. Univ. of Berlin, Central Computing Facility
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.174454@wncs.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
- References: <1993Jan5.141928.4736@titan.ksc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan7.184104@wncs.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <1993Jan7.140900.4773@titan.ksc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan7.140900.4773@titan.ksc.nasa.gov>, steve@vulture.ksc.nasa.gov (Steve Schindler) writes:
- |>
- |> >Try deleting /etc/rmtab.
- |>
- |> Alas, this doesn't affect anything.
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- True, indeed.
- |>
- |> According to my Interactive Unix manual, rmtab "is used only to preserve
- |> information between crashes and is read only by mountd(1M) when it starts up.
- |> The mountd command keeps an in-core table, which it uses to handle requests
- |> from programs like showmount(1) and shutdown(1M)."
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- Restarting mountd does the trick. I tried this one. :-)
- No obvious side effects encountered.
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- --
- Manfred Kwiatkowski kwiatkowski@zrz.tu-berlin.de
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